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… in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think biofuels ), enhance plant health, cause diseases, and produce antibiotics. Still, the team estimates … diversity. The article adds to the compendium generated as part of Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea …

… activities, striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability … strategy. And so we’re looking at the overall greenhouse gas impacts from all of our operations,” said Brie Fulton, … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove … make use of it, it would change the entire landscape of biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …

… microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs … workflows. He developed and scaled the multiDAP-seq assay, a method that enables high-throughput … of transcription factor binding sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects …

… genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also … abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference genome for M. sinensis, and … This work was supported by the Energy Biosciences Institute and the DOE …

… samples around the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us is vast, and we now have the means to explore it,” said Eugene … planet than particles in a handful of dirt, and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing …

… the current, and only, version of Phytozome accessible as an interactive website. Since May 2019, v12 has not had any additional genomes added to it, nor had any … v13, which now hosts upwards of 250 plant genomes and has been under active development for over 5 years, provides …

… on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to the project - they also worked with Sharon … ’s microbiome. And that's what we've been working on this past summer. We used a lot of different experiments in the …

… researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Recently, Lawrence, in … peat moss. Peat is found in the temperate north, in U.S.-based places like Minnesota for example, despite taking up only about 3% of the planet’s landmass, peat moss and their subsurface bogs hold over 30% of …

… participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another … either a eukaryotic microalga or a cyanobacteria, is known as the “photobiont.” Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) live … details remain unclear. For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of …

… the JGI Data Portal (https://data.jgi.doe.gov/) launched last year, it was only accessible through the plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most … it would be like a human encountering another human as tall as Mount Everest,” said Jean-Marie Volland, a scientist with … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …