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… 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 efficient biofuel production. …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … into KBase has immediate value because people can find the high-quality MAGs and use them to inform future analyses,” …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most … and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes … This work was supported by the International Consortium for Sugarcane Biotechnology, as …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … a team of researchers has been working on improving methods for isolating and characterizing entire microbial genomes … its capacity to tackle metagenomes with low (40 genomes) to high (596 genomes) complexity. The environmental datasets …

… Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that … from the Webinar: 1. Q(uestion): How much DNA is required for the JGI SIP metagenomics pipeline? A(nswer):  The more … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … early, developing standardized workflows to produce high-quality, comparable genome assemblies across diverse …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … Science Foundation (18- 25706S and 20-02022Y), by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get … 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. Within those samples, this study also tracks … the GENOBIOREF (BIO2017-86559-R) project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (cofinanced by FEDER …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility located at … State University, Jonathan Eisen of the University of California, Davis, and Michael Köpke of Lanzatech are the latest …

… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … sequence data) can suggest different predatory behaviors. A high relative abundance of virus can suggest a so-called … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …