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… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from …

… structures that enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of … a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  …

Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems … algorithms to identify billions of protein sequences in metagenomes.  We continue to engage with our user community … outreach activities and hosting visiting scientists at all stages of their careers. Our staff have organized, chaired …

TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …

… 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint … organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two copies, a …

… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … of stable, synthetic microbial communities to take advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes … Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the … and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. … across species. Specifically, many species had very similar plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs), including …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & … were found in diverse habitats including the air, plant rhizosphere, wastewater, and even animal and human …

… community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released its newest 5-Year … the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of individual organisms or environmental DNA, and …