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… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and computational tools have … information fully free and openly available to the broader scientific community.” Uri Gophna from Tel Aviv University, …

Computing Facility (OLCF), NVIDIA, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A … we need to keep pace with changes in industry/DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) facilities. It’s a …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … in ways other enzymes are not.  “It turns out that all of life created the minimum set of ATs that act together to … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree and …

… where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the … of the root-associated microbiome in maize (Zea mays). Scientific Reports. 2021. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79320-z 3. … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … nitrous oxide). Summary To do this work, the international scientific team led by Petr Baldrian of the Czech Academy of …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … technologies for  biofuels and other bioproducts. Finally, understanding how brown rust disease resistance … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the … through the  Community Science Program , using long-read sequencing to assemble the repetitive areas of the complete …

… ocean gyres. She uses genomic and transcriptomic sequencing along with laboratory manipulations to understand …

… microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …