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… We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can digest plastic. So researchers are taking a look …

… the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing …

… As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through early introduction to …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest … Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), shows methanogenesis is not …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past … diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea … of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact Altiarchaea are abundant and … This work received funding by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation (grant number …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 …

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… Learn more about JGI’s  PhycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics … calculate self-alignments, usually in the dropdown of available targets on the synteny page. 7.  Q: What is the … genomes in PhycoCosm? A: PhycoCosm is devoted to algae (photosynthetic eukaryotes not including plants), so …