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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … called terpenes. Terpenes are made via a tangled network of enzymes in plants. To better pinpoint the biosynthetic … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test …

… With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic … archaea and bacteria hosts. The Impact Within the domains of archaea and bacteria, millions of  microbes govern …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers … using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two complete genomes from varieties that diverged over a million … soil water compared to the other plants. The team used QTL mapping to find the genomic regions that control gene …

… tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a … lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of …

… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … do all the analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics proposal calls, projects can request up … the metabolomics data (secondary metabolomics), how can we map it into these networks? A: We use networks based on the …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … transfer and frequent gene loss shape the BGC repertoire in most genomes. The BGC data will also soon be contained … sequence fragments can lead to high-quality yet incomplete genome sequences which could bias the analyses. …