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… a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the Arizona Genomics Institute. The work was partly enabled by the JGI’s … of the diversity present in R570 but shows the genomic effects of breeding practices that transformed …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee Call,  Stephen … are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on.  Answering these … to understanding the role of viruses in many areas such as ecology, agriculture, and medicine. In the recently …

… who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … in the genome by adding tagged transcription factors to a genomic DNA library. “It’s an innovative way to rapidly … where transcription factors have been repurposed during evolution to control new functions,” O’Malley said. …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … was just beginning to develop and expand into the world of evolutionary biology. And around that time, a collaborative … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells … from previously understudied clades, establishing their evolutionary relationships and leading to the discovery of … of the University of California, Riverside, and virus ecology researcher Matt Sullivan of The Ohio State …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to … are important from the standpoint of phage-bacterial coevolution and are also useful tools in CRISPR-Cas …

… 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 years, to understand how the … assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …