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… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … 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 …
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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … Colorado State University researchers led a consortium to study river microbiomes. To understand the microbiology of … Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing …
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Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to … able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) …
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… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of another polar … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …
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This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve …
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Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their …
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This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier …
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… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among the interns were two undergraduate … were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with Matt Blow; …
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