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Data Discovery Tool Helps Identify Microbial Roles within Metagenomes
… developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of … that provide insights into the nutrients that are being used and cycled in different environments. It also shows how …
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Functional Characterization of Two Class II Diterpene Synthases Indicates Additional Specialized Diterpenoid Pathways in Maize (Zea mays)
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How to Target a Microbial Needle within a Community Haystack
… targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and … traditional shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with researchers first … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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MycoCosm Tutorial
… Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes …
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
… La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and …
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A Revamped Amplification Method that Enables Nearly Complete Single-Cell Genomes
… Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% complete.  Described in  ISME …
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Depth distributions of nitrite reductase (nirK) gene variants reveal spatial dynamics of thaumarchaeal ecotype populations in coastal Monterey Bay
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Hyperdiverse, bioactive, and interaction-specific metabolites produced only in co-culture suggest diverse competitors may fuel secondary metabolism of xylarialean fungi.
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JGI Part of Berkeley Lab Team Awarded Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences
… 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 …
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Mapping the Earth’s Hidden Fungal Kingdom
… To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, … and ancient origins, fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those … genomes reveals just how much we still have to discover about Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about …
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Adam Reisselman on being a 2016 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow
… University worked with DOE JGI's Sam Deutsch. Learn more about the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship …
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Chomping Toward Better Plastic Recycling
… We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. …
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