Search

… those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

… division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid sequence into a smaller, constant-length vector using deep learning. Vector representations allow homology …

… how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable biotechnology … Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological and Environmental …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal … , and PhycoCosm , serve researchers with unique areas of focus and data and computational needs. Over its 23-year …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …

… in mammals: a structure that helps correct deleterious mutations. The Impact Shrub willow and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel … willow is flipped: females are heterogametic. To avoid confusion with the mammalian system, the sex chromosomes are …

… are solicited annually for the summer term (May through August) and selected projects will receive stipend and travel …

… and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … related to understanding how the interactions between viruses and their host microbes impact the regulation of global …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its … evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found that … and a part of the oil-producing Mucoromycotina group, about which little is known. The Cornell team cultivated and …

… production in other algae that may be more viable for sustainable biofuel production. The JGI published a partial … been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference genome is cited … work with Olivier Vallon of the French National Centre for Scientific Research on the Chlamy pan-genome and Marina …