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… Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … The phyllosphere, which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest … summer project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program. In 2023, Shayna Bennett, a UC Merced graduate student in …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new … moving to Berkeley, the JGI committed to using Stirling freezers to store samples, which use less than half as much … at Berkeley Lab, Doina Ciobanu generally works at a single-cell level as part of the JGI MicroScale Applications team. …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … techniques, the platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria … challenges working with actinobacteria and serves as a freely accessible resource that taps into a global network … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant advances compared to the 2014 Eucalyptus grandis reference genome that has been … both haplotypes, meaning it separately represents the sets of chromosomes inherited from each parent. It also has …

… genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” … (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using whole genome data from newly sequenced genomes, … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific time or under specific … time course data from two ecotypes of  Panicum hallii and multiple switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) experimental data. …

… data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … two vectors,” said Sevim.  While there are alignment-free methods for nucleotide searches, such as  Mash and  …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, … global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell 185, 4023–4037. Coclet et al., 2023. Virus diversity …

… organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are …