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… The bacterium itself was discovered by Olivier Gros, a marine biology professor at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe, in 2009. Gros’ research focuses on marine mangrove systems, and he was looking for … single cells rather than multicellular filaments, as is common in other large sulfur bacteria. He was also able to …

… manual curation of the Chlamydomonas genes. The need for streamlining those gene names speaks to the impact of this …

… but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some … interactions and identified 84 gene families that were common in fungi that live within plants (endophytes). These … fungi must be kept in check by the host and other microbes not to impede host health. For JGI Fungal Program …

… is the use of Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization strategy. Imagine you’re at an arcade and need to convert … in value to your dollars. This is, in essence, what the BPE strategy achieves. It transforms DNA sequences into “tokens” … on efficiency and diversity in sampling is to help avoid common pitfalls that similar models have historically …

… 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity … particularly interested in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. …

… generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In 1999, he was named a DOE …

… fungi and the exoskeleton of insects. It is one of the most commonly found carbon biopolymers in nature, second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein …

… Schmutz, J, & McClean P et al. 2014. A reference genome for common bean and genome-wide analysis of dual domestications. …

… Mentors Daniela Cassol, Jeff Froula & Ed Kirton Project: “ Streamlining computational studies of misfolding proteins …