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The Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) program was developed to meet the Nation's growing need for science and technology professionals with advanced computer skills. …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – … JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of …

… a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of …

… 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 … of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. … metabolites are useful in a variety of fields including biotechnology, medicine and agriculture. This comprehensive … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology with JGI users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already …

Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …