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… Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or … and even how quickly. But there's a catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis …

… Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties … across the chromosomes. “In the past, we needed model systems to test genetic hypotheses in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational …

… from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy …