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… anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the …

In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable solution of sugars. But … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid sequence into a smaller, … algorithm — a convolutional neural network, called  ResNet 34   — in order to vectorize protein sequences. Sevim is …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study … the auspices of the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times … protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an … enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … areas of focus and data and computational needs. Over its 23-year history, JGI has produced more than 13 petabytes of … or uncached (archived) The ability to send yourself a calendar reminder to download restored files Copy-and-paste …

… the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … DNA construct design and assembly—present and future challenges. Synthetic Biology . 5: 1. 2020 Nguyen et. al., … Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… with 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. …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial … hosts, and instead of lysing them, which appears to be prevalent in marine environments, they were predicted to simply … the virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the …