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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, … data and expertise to the global research community to study complex biological and environmental systems. The …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … an interactive browser that allows other researchers to study the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of … also used the tool to predict possible functions from 733 metagenome-assembled rumen genomes. Finally, they used the …

… JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven … Impact This dataset gives researchers a new foundation for studying how fungi produce and manage energy at the cellular … First, they scanned over 26,000 publicly available metagenomes in the JGI's IMG portal for mitochondrial …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive … to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found … reliant on the continued presence of the bacteria. By studying the Rm-Burkholderia symbiosis model, the team was …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new genetic mapping … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … through the Biotech Partners program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes … his student’s contributions as reviewing close to 3,800 metagenomes to verify geographic locations and assign …

… complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful … attempt to put them back into the original genomes. These metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) that came from shotgun … together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at least 80% complete when studied …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene … optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  Proceedings of the …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, 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 …