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… that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been unable to see beyond the … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … diversity has doubled, but in reality it could be three or four or five or tenfold more out there.” Digging Further into …
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… bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane as an energy source. Until recently, our understanding of these … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of a microbial community out in its natural environment, scientists have shown at least two microorganisms from …
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… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid … sequenced without pooling, which yields ~ 180 Gb of data per library. Q: How much DNA/coverage is required for … PacBio reads (i.e., reads with very low error rate), so our pipeline performs long-reads-only assemblies and not …
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… expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of … can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy …
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… Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar … environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo scientists and including researchers at the Joint Genome …
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