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… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … categories: Catalog the human virome; Develop tools to study the human virome; Explore how the human virome … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , …
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Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user …
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… from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab … and professional expertise to support the global research community in studies of complex biological and environmental … algorithms to identify billions of protein sequences in metagenomes. We continue to engage with our user community …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … (affectionately known as “Chlamy” to those who study it) a powerful reference organism for studying … the project was co-led by Daniel Rokhsar, head of the JGI’s Computational Biology Program, along with JGI Computational …
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Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the … parents or duplication, also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science …
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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of … T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence … Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription factors that control how genes are …
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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking … matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that …
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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …
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Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and … Organisms, Moscow, Russia Postdoctoral training in computational structural genomics, University of California, … Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function. Nature Microbiol. …
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