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… impressive environmental and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program. … first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. At the time, the vital global source of both … of seed oils as biofuel. After analyzing the original sequence, Gary Stacey of the University of Missouri said he …

… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… AMGs in soil viruses thought to break down chitin, the gene sequences were cloned by the JGI.  The JGI’s DNA synthesis … which encode enzymes that break down chitin. A protein tree was then constructed with the sequence data to compare … and AMGs. It could spawn future research into understanding why these AMGs exist in the first place, and what function …

… of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts … ecotypes because, historically, they have used the sequence of a “marker gene,” namely the 16S ribosomal RNA … bioinformatics tools designed for analysis of DNA and RNA sequence data.  …

… of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural similarities in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is … Deep learning algorithms can vectorize faces… … so, why not proteins?         …

… from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on why the dry rot ( Serpula lacrymans ) is so destructive in … in spruce and other conifers in boreal forests. As these trees were harvested for constructing buildings, the dry rot … Serpula species, S. himantioides from Europe, that was sequenced and analyzed by the JGI. The researchers found …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, …

… carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated … now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with …