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… The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and …

… livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down … still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand …

… Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and …

… The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and … The committee serves as the program's key external advisory panel and as advocates of the program's strategy, … and scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor does it direct the …

… automation enabling ever-higher levels of throughput. We also develop methods for efficient QA/QC based on … on developing methods for converting digital information from sequence databases into biotechnological or … methodologies, and statistical frameworks for inferring genotype to phenotype associations. Research Team    …

… we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little about where to collect the California Cone … general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 and all of 2017 … found informatics to be intimidating. That first exposure from great interactions with Dr. Ben Cole and Dr. Axel Visel …

… Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes … years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …