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… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … ecosystems function in such extreme conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable … Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid …

… sorghum’s survival secrets could change not only how we use and grow sorghum, but other important crops as well. In … of sorghum projects at the JGI: 2009: JGI and collaborators use whole-genome shotgun sequencing to analyze the … ) and the grass Brachypodium distachyon ( 2017 ), have identified many more genes than found in the single reference …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … namely the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene, to mark or identify microbial species. All SAR324 have very closely related …

… 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 … Lab is really gearing towards getting us to zero waste certification. That says you’re diverting waste appropriately …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable … sugar and biomass. Additionally, the team was able to identify a major locus (Bru1) that durable resistance to brown …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, …

… 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 … from the University of California, Berkeley, report the identification of active Cas enzymes – dubbed Cas14 – that …

… 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, …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … Research (BER) and is a contribution of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome …

… the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. … a similar single-cell genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His …

… technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for … computing infrastructure and analysis. This way, JGI users — both primary, data-generating users, as well as … , the JGI — along with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing …