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… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … the University of California, Davis. “The work with JGI was one of the first things we actually started doing when … first. Prospective users are always welcome to contact one of us about possible proposals if it’s different from …

… with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for … eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large vertebrate genomes.  For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed … 590: 438-444. Mamidi, S et al. 2020. A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of …

… improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant advances compared to … operated under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The bioinformatics work conducted at the University of Pretoria was …

… consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … relationships are long-term biological interactions between one or more biological organisms. One hallmark of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

… food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able … 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and … in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we …

… is wild,” and admitting, “friends give me a hard time for that.” But the title brought him back to his first … that the ambiguity was exactly her point. “Things have one or another function that completely depends on the … soil), it’s actually quite significant knowing that there’s one billion bacteria in a teaspoon of soil.” She added that …