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… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key … This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their … with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers …

… The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. The JGI is eager to work and share our tools … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny word. The 500 species … User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … Wu Edgar Jimenez & Sharon Greenblum and Matt Mingay Frank Gutierrez & Simon Roux Harrison Ho & Ian Blaby and Ernst …

… Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger … single protein. Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … challenges. While a hill of beans may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The work conducted at CIRAD was supported by the …

… 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 …