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… challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … feature in common with certain other cereal crops: It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars …

… Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has been developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and … high-dimensional data (the 136 tetranucleotide frequencies for each of the 12,063 metagenomes) and reduce it into two …

… Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or … I’m definitely seeing why this is such an important area to study. Okay, what’s your third story?  DAN: The third story … ALISON: Hmm, yeah, I guess this relates to when I was studying heterotrophic bacteria: the core genome and the …

… Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … Science Program , they were able to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on … Partial support was provided by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) (5P20RR016480-12) and the …

… to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting some conversations … the feed, the secondary metabolism field has been dominated for … well, as long as I can remember, by bacterial … this, is that I don’t have an awareness of how to go about studying them. Like to me, fungi are, you know, how do you …

… not good at that, you guys. I’m trying really hard just for you. And the JGI Comms team. But mostly you. Anyway…I’m … podcast. BETSY PARKINSON: Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. Really excited to be here. DAN: Happy to have … think this is an area that is a little bit unclear whether for Streptomyces and actinomycetes, whether they can cross …

… so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … metabolites, like sponges were a really common source for people to try to find new medicines for a long time. But … secrete a lot more things than people do…? Although I don’t study people so maybe I’m wrong. But yeah, I mean, because I …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a … The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …