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… 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?         …

… organisms can do. And we need the field’s context to see why it matters.” As his career progressed, Hungate has … flow — quantitative rates of element flow — to individual species?” As Hungate shared his approach to those questions … these amazing technologies that the JGI has to identify and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale …

… candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model species. The following year saw the beginnings of common … of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference …

… of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are over 10,400 species of ferns alive today. Boasting adaptations in order … power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern …

… to look at how this enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… Jill Banfield approached Doudna with repeated genetic sequences (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her … and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by the JGI), and the virus that infects it,  … to something that represents all of the genes within a species. A pangenome, then, consists of those sequences …