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… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … of interest could be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants that have increased fruit … U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard … Genomics (formerly DNA Synthesis) call, and he noted the data had driven his lab’s focus on guide RNA library …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers …

UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … advanced in my understandings than I would be at this stage without the internship and mentorship that followed. I …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … to work with JGI virus researchers and harness the IMG/VR database. “The SCGSR award will further my goal of resolving … projects after the JGI and KBase have settled into their new shared home, the Integrative Genomics Building at …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … These two things combined led us to conclude that our new methanogen did not belong to the Euryarchaeota, the …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest … to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently published a Nature … on a number of plants, including  genomes of cotton lineages and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be …

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews … metabolism . And postdoctoral researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of antibiotics called zealexins. Even though scientists have … the ability make zealexins, and harnessed gene expression data from these lines to identify genes associated with …