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… The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … key to discovering new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious disease. Streptomycetes are also abundant in … It is the largest genus within Actinobacteria and therefore a cornerstone of ActinoBase,  a public platform built …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most … the use of modern, genomic breeding in these crops. For diploid species, sequencing programs generally focus on … sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with more than 80 percent found to be …

… access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … State University, which archives and makes available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … Bifidobacterium  are able to carry out this metabolic feat. For both clades, then, strains are variable in their …

… advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the University of Florida, an …

… dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has looked for DGRs in a broad range of publicly available datasets. … Scientists might then harness them as molecular tools for research and industry applications. Summary In their …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation … A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics chloroplast function within a cell-sized …

… majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon … was theorized that sex determination was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the genome, …

… hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest … role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for submitting successful proposals: Collaborate With a U.S. … and Reproducible Workflows To Advance Earth System Science” 11:18am Convention Center, Rm 238-239: Kaela Amundson, …

… ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage of reducing the need for nitrogen fertilizer. These impressive environmental and … of Missouri said he and his colleagues had identified 1,110 genes involved in lipid metabolism.  “There’s still a … “All along the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and …

… projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and chemistry for advanced analysis, modeling, and data integration. Dr. Bowen’s expertise in … 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement 2012 UC Berkeley, Leadership and …

… samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore … training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of …