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… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill … forward to seeing the data when it finally gets off the sequencers. The pandemic has obviously slowed JGI down a …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern …

…   Registration has closed   Registration fees: Regular attendees  (LBNL and external): $400  … metabolic and functional capabilities. Take part in the "Sequences to Cultures" Jamboree!  Immediately following the … the Desert Research Institute. Metagenomic and single-cell sequence data have provided a means to access novel …

… 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 plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …

… 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 Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This … This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (18- 25706S and 20-02022Y), by the Ministry of Education, …

… Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

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

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …