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Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting … collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number … and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download experience accessible from JGI’s plant …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found …