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… successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … with potential applications in industry and biotechnology for the production of  clean energy . Summary Arbuscular … at a larger scale through downstream DNA purification and sequencing steps. Ultimately, researchers found their …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … that colonizes Brock and gives him super strength. For lichen, the partnership is more commonplace — though … colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how … for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . …

… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used sequencing methods for the first time to comprehensively … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew …