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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 …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the …

… 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 …

… 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?         … The U.S. Department of Energy …

… astronomical figure, and yet viruses outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% … For example, microbes that capture and store carbon in the ocean could fix less carbon when infected. Little is known … (EMSL), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Researchers …

… into such bodies of water before heading out to bays and oceans. While river microbes are critical to monitoring and … WHONDRS, a community science river sampling program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established …

… 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 … JGI are DOE Office of Science User Facilities located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley …

Overview of Symposium Goals Metagenomic and single-cell sequence data have provided a means to access novel … cataloged and taxonomically classified to date. Under the “sequence to function’ umbrella, this symposium will further … Sea Research (NIOZ) Nicole Poulton , Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences Roland Hatzenpichler , Montana State …

… functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in … of the essential trace metal zinc, compared to other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … (IMG/M) suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. CheckV …