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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters … of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s … structures and functions of the genes encoded in the genome sequence is part of the integrative science mission of the …

… infection. They analyzed differences among mutant maize strains, deploying gene editing to knock out four critical …

Ultimately, this process enables researchers to identify strains able to produce secondary metabolites within a lab …

… candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a … of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference … advanced, assembly and annotation of the genome sequence improved in parallel. The switchgrass genome …

… recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to …