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… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked … newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Beyond Basepairs — A Vision for Integrative and Collaborative Genome Science , the … JGI supports, include JGI’s emerging leadership role in a Microbiome Data Science effort (pages 37-39) and the …
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… model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact … permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Energy is overseeing … the CSP, researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy …
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… 1. Q(uestion): Do you accept oomycetes to be proposed for genome sequencing, or only “true fungi”? A(nswer): Our … for their genomes. User annotations are highlighted and GeneCatalog track and may be included in GenBank submissions … Q1. Are all based on PFAM classification-only and/or other reference DB (citable)? Q2. Is it possible to download these …
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… Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to seven. Doudna was recognized for her work on CRISPR-Cas9, technology described by the … For the past few years they have partnered with JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining …
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… research results in genomics, metagenomics and the human microbiome. The workshop will train participants in … and seminars as well as practical hands-on sessions in bioinformatics and biostatistics Several sessions will be devoted … training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by Natalia Ivanova and …
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… familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows for computational analysis and interpretation of sequence data. IMG/M is a web-based platform that provides access to the wealth of public microbiome …
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… the genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their … [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. Dr. Charles Gawad has been supported for this work by a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator …
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… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … on an aspect of the Phenotypic Response of the Soil Microbiome to Environmental Perturbations under PNNL’s … expected to be expert users on all of the scientific instruments. Instead, members of the scientific staff from both …
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… mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. … led by Jennifer Doudna’s group at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, which is also affiliated with … side, gene editing is being advanced as a potential therapy for both genetic and complex disease. Finally, gene editing …
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… challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … as well. In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 … have cited that genome. Since publishing that original reference genome, the JGI has also continued to collaborate …
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