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… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by viruses in their environments. Environmental DNA …

… Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by then-graduate student Cory Schwartz and his advisor Ian … approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, …

… from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with their roles within their environments. …

… first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … for the next generation. Understanding the mechanisms by which they reproduce can help guide breeding efforts. For … located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced the shrub willows through the  Community Science …

… development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and … has focused on producing high-quality reference genomes. By cataloguing a genome sequence for a line of sorghum, reference genomes have …

… Efforts such as the 1000 Fungal Genomics Project led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each containing … died and others grew well; the survivors had their DNA sequenced at the JGI as part of a 2014 Community Science …

… and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, …