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Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to …

… viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and … datasets becoming available but also complementary single-cell sorting and sequencing of viruses together with their …

… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is … suggest that fungi are breaking down plant fibers, like cellulose and lignin. Bacteria, on the other hand, appear to …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with … huge amounts of data. I was excited to work on fungal genomics and the fact that I got to do a project involving …

… and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the human microbiome. The workshop will train … and seminars as well as practical hands-on sessions in bioinformatics and biostatistics Several sessions will be devoted …

… is Mo Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s … to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and have … Lab is the home to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to counter … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …