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… allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus … been clear. Now, to answer these questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …

… bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of a microbial community out in its natural environment, scientists have shown at least two microorganisms from …

… Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to … on to Dori – a computer cluster owned and operated by the JGI and Berkeley Lab – to launch a jupyter notebook running … about how to analyze data. Zyiah Mikes : Dr. Yi Zhai is our mentor for our experimental work or our wet lab stuff. …

… lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in … dominates these polar environments greatly contributes to our larger understanding of carbon and other nutrient cycles … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

… growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual … effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical … as secreted proteins. However,  M. elongata  seems to encourage the plant to have leakier cell walls and weaker …

… Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar … environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo scientists and including researchers at the Joint Genome …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal … potential for AI-driven studies of energy metabolism. The Science Researchers produced nearly 10,000 new annotations … standardized structure of the dataset position it as a resource for AI-driven approaches to predicting fungal …