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… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of … Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription factors that control how genes are … be used by itself, it can also serve as a stepping stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events … a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the … the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes worked with mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root …

… in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received … developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene expression analysis in multicellular organisms. During his …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental and energy challenges. But not all scientists have … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would …

… data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree … Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples from four sites: … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as … great impact on these algal blooms. So Vardi and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by … This work paved the way to move beyond a single case-study, the reference genome, to something that represents …

… assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how genes are regulated is like … hard to make them work for the kinds of plant samples we study — and even go beyond, putting four different species … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …