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Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … evolved to high performance, with specificity — a bit like including hex keys in many different sizes in a …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of … Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI … approaches applied to relatively tractable samples like lakes and rivers could help fill in the gaps,” she …

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

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from … forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute … hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics … al. (2017) Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data. Science   355(6322):294-298 Paez-Espino D. et … al. (2015) Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 43(14):6761-71 Kyrpides NC et …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this … we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like. …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …