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… intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew Nelson of the Boyce … tree species that are widely grown as feedstocks for lignocellulosic and other biorefinery products. The work builds …

… of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and … Roux is also one of the lead organizers of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium , which will take …

… energy and environmental challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths of the … can be seen. These plagued patches have become kindling for the inevitable next firestorm. The majestic sentinel … the California bay laurel. Because the oaks are considered “dead-end” hosts, he suggested that the epidemiology of the …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of polysaccharides called pectin and hemicellulose. While these two polysaccharides can yield sugar …

… Wednesday, March 18: "Genomics of Environmental Opportunism: Fungal Adaptation at …

… 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long … Walnut Creek, after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained … the process of moving 250 people and their equipment from 4 single-story buildings to a new 4-story building 20 miles …

… highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 … a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. I-Min Chen ,  Natalia Ivanova ,  Nikos … , and Tanja Woyke  were part of a “big data” mining effort reported in  Nature Biotechnology that led to the …

… datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented by Igor …

… known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the … Genomes Project, which aims to provide a reference genome for each of the fungal families. Researchers had access to … genomes, they also built a high-quality phylogenetic tree for  Dothideomycetes . The data allowed the team to …