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… plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be …

… meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter van Esse (The Sainsbury Laboratory) and …

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

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … approved through the annual Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through peer review from 41 full proposals out of 50 letters of intent …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex …

…   Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … (Berkeley Lab) describe a computational pipeline that can specifically scan for those snowflakes, or RNA virus … data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) generated from diverse environmental samples around the world, …