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… “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant … comprise a full third of each moss genome, and are almost four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the … with the owner saying, “We’re not going to sell it, of course.” McDaniel’s lab predicts the decoded complex plant …

… gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library … could lead to sustainable pathways for making high-value bioproducts including biofuels. In addition, the team says that … published in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers more ways for scientists to explore …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s …

… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a framework essential to …

… on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an … major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part … genes associated with a given transcription factor is resource-intensive and unscalable. To test the efficacy of …

… microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … DNA could be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and his team at the JGI … to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and assembly); by a …

… assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides. To demonstrate its …

Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … system. “We then looked into many more samples and refined our methodology,” Neri said. “Our team grew and so did the scope of the project.” To this …

… date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can … no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center (GACRC) and Georgia Genomics and Bioinformatics … of Georgia provided sequencing and computational resources, respectively. This work was supported by the Office …

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