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… [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, Christina Hazard, Rachel Mackelprang, Brook … to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute … hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when … to adapt to stress and rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To ensure the gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and archaeal genome and contig sources.  The …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after such events, returning their genomes to a diploid state while … traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in plants, researchers have sought to learn the origins, evolution and …