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… research cruises, they dipped their self-closing containers into sea water to sample algal communities along transects … done through the JGI Community Science Program . Using an ecology metric called beta diversity, the team observed that … across the global ocean. Instead, they sharply delineated into two big geographical groups: those in colder, polar …
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… Science Program — as well as through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science Program (FICUS) … the JGI because with that, we have a much less biased view into biological diversity. You don’t have tunnel vision …
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… to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like … found in soil samples, and assembled those RNA transcripts into a metatranscriptome. Overall, they found that despite … and mycorrhizal symbionts have historically been divided into separate ecological niches — recyclers and …
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… 9 4:15pm PT (online) Town Hall on how the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program …
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… algorithms. They added that DAS Tool’s flexibility in integrating results from both manual and automated binning … environmental samples of very complex microbial communities into complete or near-complete genomes to aid …
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… that lead to increased lipid production. These insights into Y. lipolytica biology and lipid metabolism furthers … abundant biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In … these sgRNAs, cloning them alongside CRISPR-Cas9 into an expression vector to create an sgRNA plasmid …
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… to Antarctic valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … enzymes, secondary metabolites, and other parts lists for biotechnology, bioenergy and biomaterials,” said Igor …
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… The researchers also learned how an inovirus’ strategy of integrating itself within a host can lead to beneficial or … phages!” said Krupovic. “We can now start inquiring into their impact on microbial communities in the …
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… could inform how scientists can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many natural … digesting plant material in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the genomes and follow-up experiments, recently … at both the JGI and EMSL was enabled by the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …
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… Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and mentor Juan C. Villada, Ecology & Evolution of Self-Catalytic Introns across Earth’s … Prediction to Annotate Novel Viruses: the Case of Polintoviruses Josue Duque and mentor Miguel Romero, … own PhD while at UC Merced Christopher Bivins : So coming into this internship, I was really excited to have the …
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… community will bridge fundamental knowledge gaps to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing. As a leader in genomics … users with capabilities to create genomics-enabled insights into a vast range of organisms and ecosystems. These kinds … expertise and resources to help them turn these data into insights and knowledge in support of the DOE science …
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… and cultivate what is still unknown. “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see … the data are publicly available in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank collection and on … isolates are needed to convert the potential implications into applied science, contributing toward a sustainable …
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