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… The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, … DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was also supported the grant #2016/23218-0 from São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal … , and PhycoCosm , serve researchers with unique areas of focus and data and computational needs. Over its 23-year …

… demonstrated the efficacy and potential of regulon identification by in vitro transcription-sequencing (RIViT-seq) … sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … ecosystems function in such extreme conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable … Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid …

… sorghum’s survival secrets could change not only how we use and grow sorghum, but other important crops as well. In … rice in 2002) and the first C4 crop to be fully analyzed. 2014: The JGI updates its Sorghum bicolor reference genome … ) and the grass Brachypodium distachyon ( 2017 ), have identified many more genes than found in the single reference …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … Boeuf and colleagues set sail on research cruises in 2015 and 2016. At Station ALOHA , site of the 30-years-long … namely the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene, to mark or identify microbial species. All SAR324 have very closely related …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … three years ago. For JGIers, the moving process began in 2017 with annual one-day cleanups. During those days, they … Lab is really gearing towards getting us to zero waste certification. That says you’re diverting waste appropriately …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane … sugar and biomass. Additionally, the team was able to identify a major locus (Bru1) that durable resistance to brown …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, …

… The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then … from the University of California, Berkeley, report the identification of active Cas enzymes – dubbed Cas14 – that …