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… is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary history. Retaining ancestral features of both … fate stepped in when a fire at the lab relegated the experimental scientist to library research for three months. … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF DEB-1239992 to …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and … cohesive data standards, the JGI partners with a number of facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the … to facilitate these efforts. Particular areas of emphasis will be the development of tools and …

Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and the JGI … your plant genomics research. Click here to download a list of talks relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January … for Bioprospecting in the Green Lineage using KBase 6:51 PM Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in the Moss Ceratodon 7:09 PM …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … and future directions integrating computational and experimental approaches with the aim of eventually studying …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, … a global analysis of the diversity, distribution, and evolution of virophages.” Lead author David Paez-Espino  …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … discuss how to move from cataloging microbial diversity to experimental characterization and validation of the …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern …

… learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … are important from the standpoint of phage-bacterial coevolution and are also useful tools in CRISPR-Cas …

… exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand …