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… components that make it useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced … experiments; study DNA methylation, which gives clues to how an organism may tune gene expression; and investigate … Knowledgebase (KBase) also allows researchers to study how metabolites flow through and transform in algae. …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from …
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… that time. “Looking across the tree of life, it’s striking how many uncultivated lineages are only represented by … field [metabolic modeling], but they might be interested in how biochemistry impacts what they work on. The genomics … finding ways to utilize the catalog in his own research on how microbes respond to climate change. “With this dataset I …
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… cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing … they turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugars. How photosynthesis works, though, is much harder to pin … longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts …
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… which organisms the viruses may be targeting or infecting, how well the targeted organisms are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on. …
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… (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani …
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… environments, and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to … offers insights into microbial evolution, as well as how Antarctic microbial communities contribute to global … in the very salty waters of Deep Lake to better understand how they’ve adapted to these conditions, information that …
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… Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment. …
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… land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like biomass and biofuels . However, AMF and the microbial communities they inhabit are … and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and understanding how to improve soil health can help mitigate the effects of …
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… of chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis microbiome, particularly, how bacteria can be driven toward compounds produced by the … the best to use,” he says. “Many academic labs don’t know how to analyze RNA-Seq data very well, sending it out to … the first round of feedback from the participants to learn how to improve in future years. Knowing that we can …
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