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… of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural similarities in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is … Deep learning algorithms can vectorize faces… … so, why not proteins?         …

… Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant … This is due to the overreliance on a few species like Arabidopsis or rice as homology models for computational … Weng from Univ. of Austin, who previously led work on  Arabidopsis and  Panicum hallii , contributed panicle time …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, …

… to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated … now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with …

… Questions about the transition from Phytozome v12 to v13. Why is it necessary to retire Phytozome v12? The codebase … interactively in v13.  They are: Vvinifera_Genoscope.12 Crubella_v1.0 Mdomestica_v1.0 Fvesca_v1.1 Pvirgatum_v1.1 … preset for the gene in question, so you can download sequences, annotations, and gene structures. These genomes’ …

… Jill Banfield approached Doudna with repeated genetic sequences (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her … and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by the JGI), and the virus that infects it,  … plants other than maize including black cottonwood, rice,  Arabidopsis ,  Mimulus and Amborella (in preparation). …

… 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 … Pangea. McDaniel’s lab continues to work on the enigma of why the ancient moss sex chromosomes continue to evolve so …

… on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome … metagenomes can I submit?  How deeply are metagenomes sequenced? A:  For the next call ( CSP New Investigator ), … count toward the 1Tb cap. PacBio metagenomes are currently sequenced without pooling, which yields ~ 180 Gb of data per …

… domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once … these engineered bacteria were used with the model plant  Arabidopsis,  the plants grew better than when they were …

… Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team … and others that preferred the hollows. Those genome sequences showed not only that the sex of a sphagnum plant …

… our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — …