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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

… of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events … a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that …

… data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree … Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples from four sites: …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

… — before any work can begin, including the submission of samples for sequencing, or the submission of sequencing data for synthesis. This agreement, … performed in its User Facilities, is a legally binding contract.   All User researchers must have their …

… biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as … Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … weeks at the DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …