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… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The … don’t allow researchers to compare across very distant species that no longer mate to produce progeny. The … also highlight the corresponding need to be able to assign functions to unknown genes and improve functional annotation …

… crop essential to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it …

… led by Jennifer Doudna’s group at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, which is also affiliated with … is being used to develop drought, flooding, pest-resistant, and better-yielding crops. On the clinical side, gene … accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered … establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a research article. Speakers will …

… States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to … are transport systems, and their health is heavily reliant on the energy and nutrient flows that the microbes in … do—can help researchers develop predictive watershed scale models to manage river ecosystems. One application for the …

… which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among the JGI Flagship Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying … the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model species. The following year saw the beginnings of …