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Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the …

The BioSANS instrument is at the Center for Structural Molecular Biology (CSMB) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.   On March 2, 2021, the Environmental Molecular Sciences …

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect … the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) , successful applicants can also access resources at NEON. This …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and uncultured in laboratories. … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI … in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” … elements based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. Roux was first author on a study featuring a new …

In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related … to their environments, two gene families—peroxidases and nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeats (NLRs) —stood out for …

… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences … one of the following focus topic areas: Biofuels and bioproducts, Biogeochemistry, and Inter-organismal interactions. …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … rise, so do instances of extreme weather events such as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in late … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the … can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are … in Nature Communications on June 17 , 2022, was conducted by JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and research scientist … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …