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The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 1: Many, Many Mers
Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a … Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To see how the fungus affected poplar growth, …
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The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.5: a metadata management system based on a four level (meta)genome project classification
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Detection of short-term cropping system-induced changes to soil bacterial communities differs among four molecular characterization methods
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Microbial community analysis of three hydrocarbon reservoir cores provides valuable insights for the assessment of reservoir souring potential
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Quantitative iTRAQ-based secretome analysis reveals species-specific and temporal shifts in carbon utilization strategies among manganese(II)-oxidizing Ascomycete fungi
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A Genomic Perspective Across Earth’s Microbiomes Reveals That Genome Size in Archaea and Bacteria Is Linked to Ecosystem Type and Trophic Strategy
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JGIota: Looking Back at How Cow Rumen Samples Landed on a Syllabus
… metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State … University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear … User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …
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Draft Genome Sequence of Mn(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Oxalobacteraceae sp. Strain AB_14
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Cracking the Secrets of the Diatom’s Shell
Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to … Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …
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A bacterial toolkit for plants
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The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 2: Souped Up Computing
This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets … with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — …
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