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… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by … The results yielded several CRISPR-Cas systems, and based on several experiments conducted by Doudna’s lab at UC …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … was able to identify enzymes in the soil and who made them. Based on data reported in the April issue of Soil Biology …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility … studies enabled contribute to the development of bio-based products and next-generation technologies, and toward …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the …