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A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces … more about the diversity of microbial enzymes, which could have a plethora of potential applications to industrial … shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to set a reference for its …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed to adapt to a unique set of conditions in polar … that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than non-polar algae. They …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be … a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from …

… bioproducts production, leveraging systems-based approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and … cycling, and biogeochemistry — questions of relevance to DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research … any aspect of these mission areas, priority will be given to projects that address the areas of special emphasis that …

Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated … cycles remains unexplored and uncultivated. Developing a more targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to … and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science … Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple copies of chromosomes. Sugarcane accounts for … image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more challenging and took more than a decade because there …

… on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies sediment-dwelling archaea, expressed his interest in giving a voice to JGI … solution to this problem.” He also wants to assist JGI in extending its activity-based cell sorting pipelines to further … phenotypes and genotypes. Pawlowska, who studies fungal-bacterial symbiotic systems, noted that she would like to …

… loads of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able to pry apart plant … to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and her team are amassing all … may be able to provide tools beyond biomass breakdown, extending into biochemical production.    Over time, as these …