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This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free … have both the machinery to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep processes running … produced BDO at higher productivity rates than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy … Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of  Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a … is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, RNA viruses store their genetic … Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into many more samples and refined our methodology,” …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in … James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in its environment, this …

… program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to … collaboration.  JGI Director Nigel Mouncey reflected on how the JGI-UC Merced Intern partnership had become a …