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… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to … with the fungi and bacteria, while the DOE JGI team sequenced and annotated a host genome (Rm ATCC 52813) as …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit these sites, as well as the …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … and synthesis work. This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added products are limited in chemical … an alternative format for chemical synthesis in the absence of cell growth by isolating the soluble components of lysed cells. By separating the production of enzymes …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.”  In his words, the history of the strawberry is …

… Choice Awards . NERSC, JGI, ESnet are U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. The HPCwire Editors Choice Award … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence …

… With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …

… 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 researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …