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… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … These enzymes are crucial for creating nucleic acids and proteins, as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with insight …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … IMG/M system . A Comprehensive Learning Experience “When I originally envisioned the project of the class, I knew that …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the … giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of with …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, … of its genetic complexities will illuminate the evolutionary history of a pivotal plant as well as the … and annotations for 35 species representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life. …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … plant’s traits and genetic diversity,” said John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of … of switchgrass across the garden sites depended on the origin or collection location of the individual switchgrass …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds in Proteins. ” Yu Lu : ”I really enjoyed meeting and getting to …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … but also the ability to understand the complicated evolutionary history of strawberry in such detail is … Session mentioned that the analysis for determining the evolutionary history of strawberries wasn’t completely …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … “While computationally derived MAGs have been a revolutionary tool for microbiology, it's a call to balance,” …

… share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of …