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… 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 …

… impressive environmental and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program. … first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. At the time, the vital global source of both … of seed oils as biofuel. After analyzing the original sequence, Gary Stacey of the University of Missouri said he …

… 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). …

… 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 …

… 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?         …

… 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 …

… JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced fungal genomes, omics data and comparative … ) on PhycoCosm tree with several sequenced genomes. 2.  Q: How exactly EcoGroups are built? … or PhycoCosm. At the moment there is no DOE mandate to sequence more Amoebozoa, but we are open to a dialogue about …

… an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells …

… about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those sequenced, roughly half of all genes have completely unknown … for prediction of fungal lifestyles based on genome sequences.” The Fungal Knowledge Gap The fungal kingdom … species lies an even thornier problem: The genomes already sequenced don't adequately capture the vast nature of fungal …

… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …