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… The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria … resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine “learned” to identify data … through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  Dothideomycetes …

… and analysis will be provided for free to the PI by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is … All proposals undergo technical review by JGI staff as well as staff at the other participating … review, proposals are evaluated and placed in rank order by the reviewers. The ranked proposal list, along with a …

… for improved growth rate and growth yield on glucose by elimination of gluconate formation. Appl Environ …

… and analysis will be provided for free to the PI by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is … User Portal . All proposals undergo technical review by JGI staff as well as staff at the other participating … review, proposals are evaluated and placed in rank order by the reviewers. The ranked proposal list, along with a …

… The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar … the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence from just a few pieces of DNA. Summary The extreme … found in iron-oxide microbial mats. The reddish hues caused by the presence of iron led Inskeep and his colleagues to … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is …

… the Methodology section as “those that rank in the top 1% by citations for papers published and cited between … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 … of the JGI plant portal Phytozome, which is overseen by 2017 Highly Cited Researcher David Goodstein. Go here to …

… beyond what each of these facilities could generate by itself.   Accepted projects must address or be otherwise … and analysis will be provided for free to the PI by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is … or outside the scope of the call.  Letters are reviewed by scientific staff of the participating User Facilities, as …

… in the Mangroves The bacterium itself was discovered by Olivier Gros, a marine biology professor at the … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

… plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This …

… increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic … they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  …