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… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … lead to sustainable pathways for making high-value bioproducts including biofuels. In addition, the team says that … systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users outside the realm of bioenergy optimization. …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online … vector representations of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with … plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after such events, returning their genomes to a diploid state while …

… never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us lemons, … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

… tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented by Igor Grigoriev, Steven Mondo, Steven Ahrendt and Sajeet Haridas. …

… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process …

… Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, report the …

… Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the … is published in the same issue of Nature Microbiology . Their study focuses on the discovery of new populations …

… For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called … Primary Template-Directed Amplification (PTA) yields a much higher completion, above 80% in most cases. The Impact …

… Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. … of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …