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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 …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. … addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake … episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this …

… 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) …

… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is … cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …

… Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for …

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that …

… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately … existing methodologies developed for natural languages to study genomes,” Wang explained.  And since microbial genomes … Lab’s Computing Sciences Area to develop an efficient metagenome assembler capable of assembling many terabases of …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number … of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of cloning and expressing a given BGC in various …