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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … an interactive browser that allows other researchers to study the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of … also used the tool to predict possible functions from 733 metagenome-assembled rumen genomes. Finally, they used the …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE … researchers with a powerful addition to their toolkit to study gene function. As a demonstration, the researchers …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … as multiple copies across the chromosomes. In a follow-up study , researchers focused on two types of naturally … JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a multi-year study his student conducted involving fungal rust pathogen …

Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her … I-MA et al. IMG/PR: a database of plasmids from genomes and metagenomes with rich annotations and metadata. Nucleic … Palaniappan K, and Chu K. Maintaining a Microbial Genome & Metagenome Data Analysis System in an Academic Setting, …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer … his student’s contributions as reviewing close to 3,800 metagenomes to verify geographic locations and assign …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … confirmation bias, because it enables scientists to study how methanogenesis takes place in the context of the … They could just be switched off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more … optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  Proceedings of the …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The … history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of  M. sinensis … is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The … given sigma factor are inferred. Prior to this most recent study, only 12 sigma factors and 200 genes (or 209 sigma … to 399. Two of the 11 sigma factors addressed in the study were found to control more than 100 genes, one of …

Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of … and metabolism, work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? … of sustainable chemical products,” said Jewett, one of the study’s senior authors. “But this has been done most … graduate student Blake Rasor. He and Yi, one of the study co-authors, have maintained a regular shipment …