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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 …

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 …

… (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and practices that affect users and their … and the annual user meeting. The UEC also acts as a liaison to the user community and the broader scientific …

… 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: …

… — 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 …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science … Aberystwyth University (UK); HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; University of Massachusetts Amherst; and, Tomsk …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from … Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since 2018. Woyke also holds appointments …

… 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 …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … National Laboratory, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their research … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This … what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a group of plants in the Agave family with …