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… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance …

… Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five … article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … and experimental approaches with the aim of eventually studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few …

… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately … existing methodologies developed for natural languages to study genomes,” Wang explained.  And since microbial genomes … Lab’s Computing Sciences Area to develop an efficient metagenome assembler capable of assembling many terabases of …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … Tel Aviv University in Israel, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest … faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new cotton work, … cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … (Berkeley Lab), to fill in these gaps of knowledge. In a study published November 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the … with nearly 5,000 publicly available ones and 1,100 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from …

…   On November 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for …

… Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the … EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium series. The online seminars foster discussion on how to best capture and … explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and industrial applications. Videos from …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the … outline the questions they asked – and answered – in the study that recently appeared in the Proceedings of the … use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that reduces water loss, compared to the process used by most plant …

… In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, … on culturing virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently published in  …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the overwhelming majority of the ground … National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected …