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… and SIO. Oh, I should say what those are. Brad: What’s SIO, for all those listeners out there? Dan: Scripps Institution … before you see toxin. And we have some preliminary data with other samples that we do see days to a week of a … us is connecting genes to chemistry to really expand the toolbox of biocatalysts that we work with. Seemed like …

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Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are … and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished … to extract meaningful biological insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools for comparative analysis, visualization and …

… so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … metabolites, like sponges were a really common source for people to try to find new medicines for a long time. But … has been really crucial.  DAN: Yeah, yeah. The more data you generate, the more knowledge you can generate. So …

Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or … environment – problems that might need special technology for DNA sequencing, genomics, metabolomics, and synthetic … so now here at the JGI, I work with all of the sequencing data that the JGI produces to try to find and identify …

… world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for … The reference genome of R570 is available on the JGI plant data portal,  Phytozome .   … The work (proposal: … Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global Development” No. …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots … the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We … computationally derived MAGs have been a revolutionary tool for microbiology, it's a call to balance,” added …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like …