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… Ritu Singh, Jiaqi Tan, Claire Willing Each year, the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who … with cutting edge experimental techniques for predictive modeling and bioengineering applications to advance U.S. …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, … aim to improve our understanding of fungal diversity by sequencing genomes from across the fungal Tree of Life, but … phenotype using a strategy called reciprocal hemizygosity analysis via sequencing (RH-Seq). Strains of S. cerevisiae …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … harbored self-targeting CRISPR systems, metabolic modeling showed that  Ca . Huberiarchaeum would help fill in …

… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy …