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Association of functionally significant Melanocortin-4 but not Melanocortin-3 receptor mutations with severe adult obesity in a large North American case–control study
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2024 Progress Report
… for a sustainable bioeconomy. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide … processed 13,700 metabolomics samples With our users, 247 publications were published   … Our primary objective is to … our work on four strategic themes: Nutrient Cycling, Functional Diversity, Data and Connectivity and Stewarding …
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How to Target a Microbial Needle within a Community Haystack
A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … pools before being subjected to genome sequencing. Various fixation protocols were also tested as part of the method …
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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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Multi 'omics comparison reveals metabolome biochemistry, not microbiome composition or gene expression, corresponds to elevated biogeochemical function in the hyporheic zone
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Coral life history and symbiosis: Functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata
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2022 Progress Report
Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …
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Designer DNA: JGI Helps Users Blaze New Biosynthetic Pathways
A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test …
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JGI@25: Building a Better Bean
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common … common bean’s nutritional value, providing anywhere from 10-30% of daily protein requirements. It is also an essential …
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor …
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Tracking the Origins of Methane-Producing Microbes
Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or hydrogenotrophic (most common); …
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Data Ecosystem
To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and infrastructure as well as … cohesive data standards, the JGI partners with a number of facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the … to facilitate these efforts. Particular areas of emphasis will be the development of tools and …
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