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… when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break … . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team distinguished four specific habitats within the forest floor: the leaf …

… scale of data enabled by these approaches creates a vast resource offering researchers the ability to chart regulatory … at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … to engineer similar plants with different traits. One key discovery relates to conservation scores, which measure how …

… Program, focusing on the organization of community driven science for JGI Plant Flagship Genomes and DOE relevant … Jeremy Schmutz is the Plant Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about … North Central College, Naperville, IL BS in Computer Science, North Central College, Naperville, IL …

… microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck … of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of … DNA could be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… PacBio reads (i.e., reads with very low error rate), so our pipeline performs long-reads-only assemblies and not … Depending on the project setup, we can include as part of our data analysis plan mapping of short-reads datasets … A:  Long-read metatranscriptome / RNA metagenomes are on our radar, but we don’t offer these at this time. Q:  How …

… Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and they agreed, providing three articles for the journal with Du Toit as their editor. The partnership has … “Given the great expertise in microbial genomics and metagenomics of the microbiology-focused groups at the Joint …