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… of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could open avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene … machinery harvests sulfur from gaseous organic sulfur compounds in the atmosphere.  Beyond bacteria, this … done the synthesis, metagenome mining, all the way from sequencing to functional characterization, and a project …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. … Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. Grimwood heads the Library Construction …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been … The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions … One example, published in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from …

… Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project … DNeasy PowerSoil Kits and sent the samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed … the class through the workflow and all the process steps of sequencing and analyzing the DNA samples. The class was also …

… Understanding the role of transposons and 5mC in fungi could help researchers find ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With … specific 5mC methyltransferase (MTase) variants. Using new sequencing technologies for producing both reference genomes …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic … metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … individual organisms, using various methods for processing, sequencing and analysis. “Using a technique called …

… When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they uncovered a … pools, followed by whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial … define as “any form of functional enrichment leading to the sequencing of genomes from either individual cells or …

… giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of … in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, archaea and … available but also complementary single-cell sorting and sequencing of viruses together with their unicellular …