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… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and importance in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … is “heavier” than DNA lacking isotopes. This manual collection of DNA is time consuming, tedious and potentially …

… Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for …  : Maggie Bowman, PNNL: “EMSL’s 1000 Soils Project: core collection strategy and data types available” December 17  …

… have been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach would be greatly increased by having the … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     Over … challenge, assembling one of the world's most comprehensive collections of fungal genomes. A sweeping analysis published … their ancient relatives by nearly 10 to one in sequenced collections. Yet the early-diverging fungi actually comprise …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hi again, and welcome to … for that insight. DAN: So I suppose, coming up with large collections of new microbes and new activities, feeds into …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the … expanding into new areas of research. The extensive algae collection at University of Duisburg-Essen is of particular …

… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of faculty and researchers describe a workforce development … Experimental Design and Sample Metadata (Module 2), Sample Collection and Processing (Module 3), Data Analysis in KBase …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … Launched in 2016, IMG/VR is the largest publicly available collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral …

… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … Data Science group mined the IMG/M system with its large collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets from …