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Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to … how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … The topics students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. 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 ( …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform … small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI … process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for …

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

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , … 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, …