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RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are … is part of the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve … on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat bogs also serve the … growth rates, decomposition, and carbon sequestration. Researchers wanted to better understand how sphagnum adapts …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in … improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In … team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c …

To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … Wisconsin-Madison as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …