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How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields. The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how …
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Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … in length, while the previous version had an average of 25,000 bp pieces. That’s the difference between assembling a …
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Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, … the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with …
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Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for … show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. … catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding. The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible …
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… Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: …
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Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in … how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State …
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High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through the JGI proposal calls . … Work at Lawrence Livermore National …
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