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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this … these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome … he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers … gaseous organic sulfur compounds in the atmosphere.  Beyond bacteria, this enzymatic machinery has potential as an … innovation ecosystem. “At JGI, we’ve done the synthesis, metagenome mining, all the way from sequencing to functional …

… researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, … The Impact The specific protein described in  a recent study in  Nature Communications , a chitosanase, is tied to … domains of life.  Using the IMG suite, JGI retrieved 142 of the GH75 AMGs, which encode enzymes that break down …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … confirmation bias, because it enables scientists to study how methanogenesis takes place in the context of the … They could just be switched off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively …

… recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local … from half of the United States. As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the … biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of the study. “For that, it’s necessary to have the plant’s genome …