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… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … majority in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of …

… the plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering group lead, the … or fungi ( MycoCosm ). “We have made a concerted effort to create a common set of ‘baseline metadata’ across …

… of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … systems, noted that she would like to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding complex communities and … with the user community and communicating their suggestions for technical capabilities and services to JGI.” The UEC …

… paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from … industry, which is something I didn’t even know existed before. Seeing the breadth of interesting work being done at …

… to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of the journal Synthetic Biology puts the … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo … — and their applications — are evolving. “JGI is famous for its work sequencing human and environmental genomes. But …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation … A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics chloroplast function within a cell-sized …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial … it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The Blob, researchers developed a … microbial communities up and down the water column. They recently shared their findings in Communications Biology . …