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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Mentors: Jessen Bredeson & Albert Wu Project: “ Pangenome de Bruijn Graph Simplification ” Peter Nguyen : …
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… uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques including single-cell … genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , which uncovered nearly 30 major previously uncharted branches of the tree of life. …
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… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … fungal enzymes actually outnumbered bacterial enzymes 3-to-1. Additionally, the fungal enzymes the team found …
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… his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … to see what research is like at JGI. After graduating from UC Merced, this experience will help them direct their … which is best for the task at hand. “There are at least 30-40 programs and it is not clear which are the best to …
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