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… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … Q:  To what extent is natural soil a limit to identify molecules exchanged between plants and microbiomes … Q:  Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the National Institutes of …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … support from the JGI. First they were able to identify the potential for methanogenesis, but questions …

… JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … serve JGI users and promote equitable and high-quality scientific research.” In particular, she added, “I am interested …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … them to close relatives who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which … the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular … Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription … Unique Capability DAP-seq allows researchers to identify all the sites where transcription factors bind quickly …

… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On August 6, 2021,  version 12 of Phytozome will be retired, and  version 13 will become … and there are now much more powerful and flexible tools available for building high performance user …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two …