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… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     … secondary metabolites, and other parts lists for biotechnology, bioenergy and biomaterials,” said Igor … allows for revealing patterns that would be invisible when studying species in isolation. The comparative power has …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … that is transferable to other systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users outside the realm … optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  Proceedings of the …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … confirmation bias, because it enables scientists to study how methanogenesis takes place in the context of the … They could just be switched off.” Yet, after extensive study, Hatzenpicher and his team were able to definitively …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers … of chemicals and plastics with this system. “From a biotechnology standpoint, we can make ethylene from certain … innovation ecosystem. “At JGI, we’ve done the synthesis, metagenome mining, all the way from sequencing to functional …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors … given sigma factor are inferred. Prior to this most recent study, only 12 sigma factors and 200 genes (or 209 sigma … by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of … subspecies variegata genomes allowed researchers to study the conservation and evolution of the genes … part in biotic and abiotic stress responses. Overall, this study improves our understanding of the terpene synthase …

… chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene … history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of M. sinensis … of California, Berkeley and the HudsonAlpha Center for Biotechnology. Most plants are diploids with two copies of each …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its … Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley …

… To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to providing metagenome mining for computational analysis of the AT … around, regardless of malfunction or misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these …

… of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has … was co-founder and chief science officer at a clean technology startup, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. (BAL), where …

… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the pipelines for directed finishing and co-led … an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom. Nucleic …

… about JGI’s  PhycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools. Questions and Answers 1.  Q(uestion): Why would your Tree ever differ from NCBI Taxonomy? … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …