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The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study microorganisms. Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an …

… student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research … at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. Baker had worked with the JGI through a … I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at how viruses might be influencing the methane cycling within these …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

The 2020 JGI-UC Merced interns and mentor/s: Brendan Blasius & Guohong “Albert” Wu Edgar Jimenez & Sharon Greenblum … Li Lei and Virginia Scarlett Jasper Toscani Field & Brian Bushnell Lesly Lopez & Li Lei Lorenzo Scaturchio & Benjamin …

… may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in many … works on food crops specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in … trait. Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to …

… the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … his words, the history of the strawberry is complicated because, “when you have comparisons to other closely related … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … Data portal … BBTools is a suite of fast, multithreaded bioinformatics tools designed for analysis of DNA and RNA …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … separate, seawater seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an …