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… approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … through photosynthesis, but only a fraction have been sequenced.  Adriana Lopes dos Santos from Singapore’s …

… researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of DNA … assembly and analysis.   To put these efforts into perspective, we caught up with JGI staff, collaborators and …

… of Sciences bridges this gap, by tracing the evolution of a specific enzyme family called aminotransferases (ATs). These … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… of wastewater, but it contains most of the nitrogen and phosphorus. Researchers around the world are exploring ways of …  was naturally performing activities similar to the specialized animal cells or osteoblasts that make HAp. JGI … Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the Bio-inspired Restoration of Aged Concrete Edifices (BRACE) program. …