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… is reduced in its environment, this alga reveals a remarkable ability to adapt to stress and rapid environmental … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … the ocean; this affects the growth and survival of the microorganisms that live there.  A  Communications Biology …

… method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort … a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as …

… of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the … small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  which dwells primarily in the rectum, downstream of the ileum and similar to …

… of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms organized into multiple interconnected layers. The … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … computationally costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance between …

… to enabling conflict resolution with respect and trust. Ms. Clarke is very enthusiastic to be a part of the … Resolution Services Program and supporting a healthy organizational culture.   …

… plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a … the Data Portal reflects a structural shift in data access. Users were previously limited to accessing data sets within … current Data Restriction Policy requires that users know about the FY Funding Year, and the publication status in …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary component of peatlands, processes  carbon can help … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times …

… the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … species to the beautiful strawberries you find at the market.” Session credited his time with Rokhsar (both during … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, for publicly available metagenome data …

… Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental … Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science user facility. The work was partly enabled by the …

… gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA … of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … could be applied to other non-conventional organisms. Summary According to legend, Abraham Lincoln once said, “Give …