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… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main …
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… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …
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… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable bioeconomy. Researchers and farmers could improve …
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… and functional genomic data and serving them to users via the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes … Team … The Integrated Microbial Genomes group is focused on: Developing state-of-the-art data processing and … nucleotide identities (ANI) and fraction of orthologous genomic regions (Alignment fraction, AF) have been …
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… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes …
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… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins …
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… with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call …
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… is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this …
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… all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these … to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many … of a genomic arms race as they recognized the private industry’s interest in simultaneously sequencing the human …
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KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of … Project, version 6: Reference assemblies for mating-type plus and minus strains reveal extensive structural mutation in the …
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… of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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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 …
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