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Laboratory. Being a User Facility means that scientists from all over the world bring us big problems related to … they figured out that they could culture the plant cells and produce enough that way in really large like 7500 … is sort of the old, older fashioned term for it. And it’s still around. But if you Google “natural products”, you’re …

… the University of Hawaii and moved there in the early ’60s from Berkeley to work on this new budding field of marine … Sequencing Program, and they worked with us to sequence two genomes. Those were of Salinospora tropica and arenicola . … or they can store that chemical – or they can store the cells, as well. And so we’re hoping initially to be able to …

… and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates the … culture collections to produce hundreds of diverse algal genomes, which will be made accessible through the PhycoCosm … is a five-year project to sequence 1000 fungal genomes from across the Fungal Tree of Life, from an international …

… the Letter of Intent; rather proposals are submitted in a single step. … The researcher then submits a proposal for … The ranked proposal list, along with a recommendation from management at JGI and the other participating …

… you’ll be hearing about microbiology and natural products from the Great Salt Lake, and you’re going to learn, like … organisms we’re finding– at least by looking at their full genomes — are really not like anything that’s been … trying to understand that system is just not possible from– completely understanding the system is not possible from the …

… approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop … computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial … and reconstruct metabolic properties encoded within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture microbial and …

… that there wasn’t enough application there. And so I moved from there to plant natural products, getting a PhD in … almost never Actinomycetes. And so when we look at their genomes we don’t get the same kind of information that we … genome sequence, in about 40% of the genome the genes were completely unidentifiable. You had no idea what they were …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for …

… studied chemistry, because she switched her degree program from geography to chemistry. So we were both enrolled as … there have been huge advances in both. The cool thing about genomes is you can, well, if your assembly is good, you can … Right? But it’s all there. Like, the puzzle is pretty much complete, might be a few places in the wrong place, but for …