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… difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of modern, genomic breeding in these crops. For diploid species, sequencing programs generally focus on a genotype with two identical sets of chromosomes to …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry … no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study microorganisms. Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within …

… The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make …

… 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 … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an …

… 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 …

… (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group. She has … Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke’s research focuses on developing and harnessing single-cell methods to … to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …

… 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 … Cas14 proteins identified were found within the archaeal superphylum DPANN, named by a JGI-led team for the first …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …

… heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after … reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens growing across the … involved researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, HudsonAlpha, and the JGI. Building off this work, …

… novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual … at the bottom.  Perhaps most notably, JGI’s Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her colleagues harnessed the … microbial genomes that were mapped to nearly 30 major previously uncharted branches of the tree of life. Used in tandem …