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… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … , a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to … Gene Atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom. … plant genomics.      Nucleic Acids Research 40, D1178. Publications … Scientific Advisory Board member, InterMine …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic … With the virus-host boundary clearly defined using functional annotation methods, it was possible to …

… degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in … call, as well as our smaller-scale New Investigator and Functional Genomics calls, here on our website.   See below …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … One other finding that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … don’t have flagella, meaning they were lost in the evolutionary adaptation to marine environments. These …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … Atlas and PPRD could help with understanding gene functional roles, but the experimental inconsistency makes … funding grants aimed specifically at “Gene function” and “Functional genomics.” We will keep updating the Gene Atlas …

Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging … technical JGI directions for DOE User science. … Complete Publications Genomic Technologies Program Defining the vast … in both the energy and health sectors. Mammalian Functional Genomics Lab VISTA Enhancers VISTA Cardiac …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal interactions, …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … polyploidy in plants, researchers have sought to learn the origins, evolution and development of plant polyploids. A … after polyploidization,” said John Vogel, head of the Plant Functional Genomics program at the JGI and a senior author …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: …