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… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and impactful analysis of microbiome data that has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial …

… symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and supported by the Office of …

… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … PacBio reads (i.e., reads with very low error rate), so our pipeline performs long-reads-only assemblies and not …

… Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant … published in 2014 by a team led by University of Pretoria scientists with help from researchers at the DOE Joint …

… about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the … originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed light on both when and how eelgrass … many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass flourishes. The plant can thrive in both frigid and tropical …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … findings in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades …

… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … is triggered when nutrients are acquired from an external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes … and his patent has proven difficult to reproduce. While scientists and biotechnological engineers all over the world …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging this symbiosis could improve the way soils store …