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… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … evolved to high performance, with specificity — a bit like including hex keys in many different sizes in a …

… The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of … The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline … access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated …

… Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from … forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute … hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of … Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI … approaches applied to relatively tractable samples like lakes and rivers could help fill in the gaps,” she …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On … Questions about the transition from Phytozome v12 to v13. Why is it necessary to retire Phytozome v12? The codebase … preset for the gene in question, so you can download sequences, annotations, and gene structures. These genomes’ …

… Select interns look back on meaningful lessons from their summer experiences at … about it? Jehan Jacobs : I have a poster session actually, like just a couple days from now. So I've been thinking … people in my group and my mentor looked over and was like, “why are you explaining phylogeny to people who have been …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …