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… life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to predict the metabolic strategies applied by a common …

… at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus . At that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than …

… and increasing demand for agricultural products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly … (UC), Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), US Department of Agriculture P­­lant Gene Expression Center, … Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke’s research focuses on developing and harnessing single-cell methods to … to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied clades, establishing their evolutionary … who spoke at the 2019 New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Meeting organized by the JGI, were also among the AAM Fellows in …

… 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 bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

… of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms organized into multiple interconnected layers. 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 …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That organisms make use of cellulose and hemicellulose is …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times … of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … completeness and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from …

… 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 … scientists to search for specific types of data across organisms, enabling them to conduct more complex types of …