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… decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to improve the emerging bioenergy crop … that could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop as a versatile candidate biomass … across the chromosomes. “In the past, we needed model systems to test genetic hypotheses in species with large and …

Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and collaborators across multiple … families and novel functions in as-yet unveiled microbes. Harnessing the collective power of more than 26,000 … environment — whether that be soil, animal hosts, marine ecosystems, etc.  “So, they must be doing something interesting …

… of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by Natalia Ivanova and Rekha Seshadri. …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. … it might make sense that honey bees have a more efficient microbiome to harvest all the energy they can. The … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… are often less diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was … Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), employed single-cell sequencing … and Rex Malmstrom of the JGI’s Microscale Applications group . Cells were randomly sorted, whole genome amplified, …

… new home of the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in … Plan: Beyond Basepairs — A Vision for Integrative and Collaborative Genome Science , the culmination of an … and the launching of a Secondary Metabolites research group (pages 47-49). “Our hope is to circulate this document …

… of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher … on cone snails, C. californicus in particular, as a model system for venom-microbe interactions. Cone snail venom has … Dr. Tanja Woyke and additionally mentored by members of her lab – especially Dr. Robert Bowers who also greatly …

… information could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop toward producing sustainable alternative … he and his colleagues found that anaerobic fungi from herbivore poop might be a new source of novel compounds to … viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity …

… plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … researchers under the direction of Microbiome Data Science Group Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy … of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided …