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… the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Natural … enzymes are, right? ALISON NARAYAN: Yes, and so that’s why I don’t like that sentence. I think that sometimes, we … have those properties. Sometimes we’ll do engineering to improve the physical properties of a protein and make it …

… vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and … tools to enhance functional studies. These efforts seek to improve understanding of how fungi and algae contribute to … provides data access, visualization, and analysis tools for comparative genomics of fungi. Mycocosm enables users to …

… and resources. Our vision is to lead genomic innovation for a sustainable bioeconomy. ALL PROPOSALS must support the … scientific discovery. Projects focused on organisms for comparative purposes, on model systems for microbe-microbe … or plant-microbe interactions, or on development of improved sequencing-based technologies are also welcomed but …

Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI … Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant … descriptions from nearest phylogenetic neighbors. Our pipeline allowed us to add expression-derived additional …

… and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back for our second season of Natural Prodcast. This first … bacteria, because it is so easy to sequence their genomes comparatively to especially plants. So yeah, so from there, … for us– what organisms people use for genome mining, why it’s called genome mining, how the biosynthetic gene …

So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with names — but not …

… so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … DAN: Alright, so I think we’ve covered a little bit about why they’re important. But one of the things I did want to … you! We have projects in genome sequencing, DNA synthesis, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in …

… inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as … of the microbial product catalog : Beyond minimal draft and improved draft microbial genomes the program offers … … The IMG/M system serves as a community resource for comparative analysis and annotation of all publicly …

… and SIO. Oh, I should say what those are. Brad: What’s SIO, for all those listeners out there? Dan: Scripps Institution … working with you, Dan, on this one, and we said, “Well, why don’t we have you know, the bioinformaticians go against … do some elicitation of production and did some meta-T [meta-transcriptomics] on that and identified just a small subset …

The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis has been … year (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are increasing their yields … to extra chromosome and gene copies, will help researchers improve  Miscanthus breeding programs. The team also …

… high-throughput sequencing and other resources at the JGI for projects of relevance to Department of Energy missions. … … SPPs enable research funded by an Industry partner to perform a defined scope of work using the JGI’s unique … sponsored by the Berkeley Lab and one or more partners for shared benefit. Industry partners can retain rights to …