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UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the …

… of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural similarities in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is … Deep learning algorithms can vectorize faces… … so, why not proteins?         … The U.S. Department of Energy …

… crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

… to look at how this enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… multipartite phenomenon in additional plant and bacterial species of bioenergy importance. … We are using cutting-edge …

… lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … these RNA reads. “Currently, this is the largest JGI-sequenced fungal metatranscriptome yet,” said Igor …

… of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are over 10,400 species of ferns alive today. Boasting adaptations in order … power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern …