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… class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could … predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using …

… and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

… of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to …

… cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, researchers … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  … CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize and remove invaders’ DNA from their own genomes. One of these systems, the …

… it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and … gene clusters and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( … of the closest comparable database. … Dan Udwary talks about the Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory  … Browse BGCs … …

… a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a … podcast minisode.)  In 2016, the JGI accepted a proposal from Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute … in size). So, the JGI helped a consortium of researchers from various institutions, including INRAE as well as the …

… data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

Hours reflect a delay in implementation of the LIMS from Q2 to Q3. As a result of the delay in the LIMS …

… papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, …