Search

… Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team … Having a better handle on the gene function helps identify the molecular targets for plant improvement. …

… look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every … the simplest cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders … lineages had dispersed and diversified over a million years ago, their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We …

… and lay a future-ready foundation     Over the past billion years, fungi have spread quietly throughout our planet. From … the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, making it nearly 30 times older than the entire human … from diverse fungi, researchers struggle to identify and classify new species from environmental samples. …

… a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” …

… Unique Capability DAP-seq allows researchers to identify all the sites where transcription factors bind quickly … ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal genomes … functional interpretation is as tough as it has been 10 years ago,” he said. “We thought about reconstructing gene …

… in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from … This work was also sponsored by NSF grants DEB-1441717, OCE-1335810, and OIA-1826734 to RS. …

… broccoli and trees like poplar, spanning about 150 million years of evolution,” said Leo Baumgart, first author on the … Advancing gene regulation mapping Previous methods to identify where transcription factors (TFs) — the proteins that … that a binding site has been maintained through millions of years of evolution, suggesting it plays an important …

… the simplest cotton genome ( Gossypium raimondii ) several years ago.   As well as the seminal Human Genome Project DOE …