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… Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental … Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an …

… of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … furthers the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to …

… in mammals: a structure that helps correct deleterious mutations. The Impact Shrub willow and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel … willow is flipped: females are heterogametic. To avoid confusion with the mammalian system, the sex chromosomes are …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of carbon fluxes …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …

… from left: [Above] Hao Chen, Matthew Cope-Arguello, Theophilus Olufemi Isimikalu, Todd H. Oakley, BJ Philmus and Aaron M. Roshotte; [Below] Paul Scesa, Kathleen … Tapping into these functions allows researchers to use them for engineering applications in support of …

… achievements in science, technology, and diversity/inclusion by the annual  HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice … JGI, ESnet are U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. The HPCwire Editors Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences went to the Berkeley Lab team …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are … de Zaragoza, one of the paper’s senior authors. “It offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex …

… Nikos Kyrpides Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of … with switchgrass biology. The information could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop … (Watch SCGSR fellows Nick Reichart and Ian Rambo talk about their experiences at the JGI.) Igor Grigoriev hosted …

… all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these … to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many … of a genomic arms race as they recognized the private industry’s interest in simultaneously sequencing the human …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … All plants make terpenoids, which carry out a diverse array of functions, including acting as antibiotics. But …