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Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene … research team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Brookhaven National …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. … virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It … genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the … trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural … products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany), … was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont … User Programs … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and … participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance between two …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. In doing so, it is our ambition to further develop a …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics … approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of …