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A Cost-Efficient Way to Convert Yeast into a Cell Factory for Hydroxyapatite
… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is … hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers … of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, conducted technoeconomic analysis to determine if this technology might have value in …
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Genetic Analysis of Physcomitrella patens Identifies ABSCISIC ACID NON-RESPONSIVE, a Regulator of ABA Responses Unique to Basal Land Plants and Required for Desiccation Tolerance
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In silico analysis of the expression profile of AA9 Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases (LPMOs) and the CDH Cellobiose Dehydrogenase enzyme in wood-degrader Agaricomycetes. The Pleurotus ostreatus case
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Fine-scale evaluation of two standard 16S rRNA gene amplicon primer pairs for analysis of total prokaryotes and archaeal nitrifiers in differently managed soils
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Finding the Fermenters
… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … with the humans and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of …
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Learning to Look
… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To … “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature …
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Genomic analysis of 94 SEMIA strains isolated from common bean nodules: species diversity and genes related to nodulation, nitrogen fixation, and tryptophan metabolism
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Open Frameworks Training the Next Generation of Scientists
… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for … scientific contributions—including sequencing services and analysis—to participants. Over the past two years, Myco-Ed … and quality of fungal gene annotations available to the global research community.  KBase has developed their own …
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Data Discovery Tool Helps Identify Microbial Roles within Metagenomes
… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies … their predicted functional and metabolic roles across global metagenomes (within IMG).  The Impact The initial analysis highlights abundances of gene annotations that … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( …
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Cold adaptive traits revealed by comparative genomic analysis of the eurypsychrophile Rhodococcus sp. JG3 isolated from high elevation McMurdo Dry Valley permafrost, Antarctica
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Viruses Reprogram Cells into Different Virocells
… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … Microbial viruses can thus have significant impacts on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For … was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy at EMSL. The team infected the …
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