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Whole metagenome sequencing and 16S rRNA gene amplicon analyses reveal the complex microbiome responsible for the success of enhanced in-situ reductive dechlorination (ERD) of a tetrachloroethene-contaminated Superfund site
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Advances and challenges in understanding evolution through genome comparison: meeting report of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) lecture course “Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics”
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JGI Earth Month: The Unusual Metabolism That Helps Plants Withstand Drought
… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … And the cool thing about yuccas is that there are closely related species that use C3 and CAM. ALISON: But plants …
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Bioenergy sorghum stem density increases threefold following internode elongation due to continued accumulation of lignified cell walls and complex regulation of genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis
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JGI@25: Building a Better Bean
… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, nitrogen …
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What Happens Underground Influences Global Nutrient Cycles
… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … fluctuating environmental conditions. The team aims to functionally link gene families to photosynthesis and … include assessing the distribution of genome-derived functional traits through the soil profile and their …
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Novel heavy metal resistance gene clusters are present in the genome of Cupriavidus neocaledonicus STM 6070, a new species of Mimosa pudica microsymbiont isolated from heavy-metal-rich mining site soil
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Supercomputing, MetaHipMer and the Mega Dataset of Lake Mendota
… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. … also collaborated to advance computing infrastructure and analysis. This way, JGI users — both primary, … researchers high-powered tools for large-scale assembly and analysis.   To put these efforts into perspective, we caught …
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning … synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor …
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The molecular dimension of microbial species: 3. Comparative genomics of Synechococcus strains with different light responses and in situ diel transcription patterns of associated putative ecotypes in the Mushroom Spring microbial mat
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JGI-Enabled Research Demonstrates the Existence of New Methane-Makers
… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to …
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New Vision, New Mission, New Plan: The JGI’s Next Five Years
… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national … solutions for bioproducts to support the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of …
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