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… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the environmental samples without needing to … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers … done the synthesis, metagenome mining, all the way from sequencing to functional characterization, and a project like this — an exciting project — we were able to …

… But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … and Environmental Research in one proposed research project. For this project, RNA sequencing was done by the JGI, and proteomics and … A portion of this research was performed under the Facilities …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of … Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now …

… Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited … of 21 fields appear on the 2019 list. Congratulations to: Project Manager Kerrie Barry, Cross-Field Category Fungal … , Biology & Biochemistry category Some highlights from projects each of these researchers were involved in that …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every … the zoospores were then sent to the JGI for whole genome sequencing using the Illumina platform. Unfortunately, both …