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… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple copies of chromosomes. Sugarcane accounts for 80% … and took more than a decade because there were pieces from multiple boxes, including some duplicates, to sort through …

… genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the … could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These applications …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … University. The CODCC aims to coordinate data acquisition, analysis, and visualization through a sustainable, … data portal, which will include a database for comparative analysis of all the Human viruses. Kyrpides described this …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play … Intent are due March 16, 2022 to freely access resources at multiple DOE user facilities through the FICUS research …

… user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to … to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of multiple Department of Energy Office of Science National …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … from a variety of environments, as well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … to conduct comparative analyses across the genomes of multiple species in a single experiment. “Effectively, you …

… fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating with others to develop healthier … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… Mateus’s research is focusing on the identification and analysis of Mobile Genetic Elements from Metagenomic Data.  Mateus’s …

… degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in scale and involve multiple collaborators, bringing together diverse expertise …

… single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of giant viruses came primarily from sampling an … reference genome, to sift for snippets of giant viruses in metagenomes. This has been useful in marine environments, …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … terpene synthases and cytochrome P450s — that catalyze multiple products, resulting in many antibiotics. To uncover … Interestingly, the enzymes the team uncovered were found in multiple, semi-redundant clusters on different maize …