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… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions … how researchers are utilizing deep learning to automatically generate insights from metagenomic data. In deep … (CRD), in order to create more useful tools for the bioinformatics community. Other work presented at the workshop …

… appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel …

… Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen … Benjamin Cole explain their research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

… can digest plastic. So researchers are taking a look at how these critters process plastic, to improve plastic …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers … take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in …

… This year’s list features 6,900 researchers working in 21 fields.  … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses.  … recently created a computational pipeline that scans specifically for RNA virus sequences, initially using it to comb …

… 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … easier access to these viral genomes. The new database was called IMG/VR. It featured samples from different ecosystems … that is already doing what you want in a sense, and can inform on how this can be done” Roux said. And in just 6 …

… 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … bean. Though the JGI no longer works on food crops specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model … plant’s reduced genetic diversity makes it easier to genetically manipulate. One important improvement to the bean …

… and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …

… Tomas uses traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …

… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups … on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic … heme availability to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria Nature Communications 15(1) 3167. 2024 Simirenko et al ., …