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… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … through more than 5,000 data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) generated from diverse environmental samples … viral diversity. “Although the technical challenges of data analysis at this scale are formidable.” Computational Sieves …

… as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey bees and …

… Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified other bacteria and …

… genome discoveries. Unlocking the intricate details of life’s genetic blueprint has long been a significant … analyze but also create DNA sequences mimicking an array of microbial life. By leveraging massive user-generated … ecological Harvard Forest project, large datasets from soil microbiome studies collected across various terrains, …

… really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis … The consortium looked at how different bioenergy relevant plants can produce species-specific blends of terpenoids, … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… Mateus’s research is focusing on the identification and analysis of Mobile Genetic Elements from Metagenomic Data.  Mateus’s …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, … with names — but not doors — and robots handle a bunch of benchwork. …