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… ten hundred most commonly used words in the English language. (Try it yourself here .) She translated her abstract from a 2019 conference. Both versions appear side-by-side below: Kaze was part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, …
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… bleached, skeletal remains of trees can be seen. These plagued patches have become kindling for the inevitable next … relative of SOD is P. infestans , responsible for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine. Shortly before the … of millions of trees in California alone. With the genome sequence in hand, the UC team led the charge to develop …
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… the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program, which started in 2012, and what they’ve discovered through their … collaboration has been incredibly productive; more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five … on different substrates. “Working with amazing colleagues at the JGI, we were able to design large-scale …
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… under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and … expanding the known diversity of bacteria and archaea by 44%, is now available and described November 9, 2020 in … and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the …
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… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers … time. They also discovered more than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public … breadth. Across this set, the same 15 core genes — 14 encoding energy-production proteins plus one ribosomal …
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… than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … communities occurs in moderate waters that have an average surface temperature of about 58° Fahrenheit (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to the ocean’s extremes of …
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… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee Call, Stephen … hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. … the role of viruses in many areas such as ecology, agriculture, and medicine. In the recently published …
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… were selected to carry out part of their thesis research at 12 host national laboratories or facilities between 3-12 consecutive months. Their proposed research projects … the next generation workforce. Since its inception in 2014, more than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the …
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… a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort consisted of three undergraduate … Basso, Heejung Cho Project: Characterizing how resident phages shape their host phenotype Graduate interns Adeola … and Identification of Mitochondrial Plasmids from DNA Sequence Moitrish Majumdar Mentors: Bikash Shrestha, Crysten …
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… host archaea – and how the microbes resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria … system to study virus-host interactions. Approximately 150 archaeal viruses had been previously identified. The JGI …
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… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest … through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species. The Impact The class Dothideomycetes …
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