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… built upon an ancient genetic framework to thrive outside aquatic environments. The Impact A deeper understanding of … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which … plant resilience and productivity. The algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s  PhycoCosm portal. …

… with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the … ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from making a bacterial artificial chromosome library to long-read …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of DNA … Lake Mendota data set, illuminating not just the highly-abundant microbes we expect to see, but also low-abundance …

… manipulation in the laboratory. Both germplasm (sequenced mutants and natural accessions) and protocols …

… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters … for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s …