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… hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome … in the development and biotechnology applications of various biomaterials. These efforts align with BER …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely … kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during … at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless … is the Microbial Science Program Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's …

… Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her … at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and her graduate work in …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … varieties that have high productivity across a range of environments is becoming increasingly important for food, … customize the crop for additional end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … clock independently provided timepoints of eelgrass’s major global colonization events. The U.S. Department of Energy … — bioinformatics expertise, as well as sequencing for all global populations of eelgrass used in the study to reveal …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. … tools and other standardized data resources that the global research community can access and use to manage the … surveys could lead to better predictive models of global climate. They may also provide a basic understanding …

… user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to … call aims to encourage innovative research exploiting a diversity of capabilities to generate datasets beyond what …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could …

… a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with … both haplotypes, meaning it separately represents the sets of chromosomes inherited from each parent. It also has … researchers have unlocked new information on the structural diversity of eucalyptus. The 2014 genome, generated using a …

… Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … the research consortium aims to generate over a terabase of sequence. “We are thrilled to support this year’s CSP … will lead to large-scale AI-ready data to support the global research community. See below for the full list of …