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… their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has … in STEM. Everyone is so happy to know you and provide all resources to excel in your project.”     Vicente Ramirez, UC …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature … be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from … can successfully partner with DOE user facilities and resources on such large-scale multi-omic data efforts, but …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with …

… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies … continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of the flora, fire moss has adapted to conditions such as UV …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a … The Impact The initial analysis highlights abundances of gene annotations that provide insights into the nutrients …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted  Kjiersten … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish … studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some of which have salinities 10 times that of seawater. To shed … (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and … great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …

… to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … Note that beyond quantity, input quality (i.e., presence of “intact” high-molecular weight DNA) is an important … currently sequenced without pooling, which yields ~ 180 Gb of data per library. Q: How much DNA/coverage is required …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., DEB-1542486 to …