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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … Nandita Nath & W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein … Sajeet Haridas & Asaf Salamov Project: “ Improving the JGI fungal mitochondrial annotation pipeline ” Anna Kucherova : …

… genomics analysis initiatives. GOLD not only curates sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part … at Lentinula samples from around the world. By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling …

… through the plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering … requires that users know about the FY Funding Year, and the publication status in addition to the public/private status. …

… and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … species, which they have applied and refined in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced algal genomes — many … metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … composition and functional potential varied across tree species and sites, reflecting ecological patterns … and influence nutrient turnover over the course of a leaf’s life. Additionally, the phyllosphere microbes can degrade …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … researchers from 67 countries. Those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” … in metagenomics and novel applications for long-read DNA sequencing. As a UEC member, Wilbanks will advocate for …

… The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … of all publicly available genomes in three domains of life.  Using the IMG suite, JGI retrieved 142 of the GH75 … which encode enzymes that break down chitin. A protein tree was then constructed with the sequence data to compare …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how … Now, with improvements to DNA Affinity Purification Sequencing (DAP-seq), these barriers are falling. As  … worked with 10 species ranging from grasses to broccoli and trees like poplar, spanning about 150 million years of …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. They also produce a … Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, …