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Expanded version of Phytozome.net released

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created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ...


Regulatory Regions Highlighted in Mouse Embryo

Next gen sequencing technology pinpoint 'on-off switches' in genomes

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California, San Diego have developed a set of molecular tools ...


Sorghum Diversity

Scientists publish complete genetic blueprint of key biofuels crop

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and several partner institutions have published the sequence and analysis of the complete genome of sorghum, a major food and ...





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Genome of symbiotic tree fungus sequenced

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created Jul 25, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

U.S. government scientists have completed DNA sequencing of a fungus that forms a beneficial symbiosis with trees in North American and Eurasian forests.


Duckweed Collection

Duckweed genome sequencing has global implications

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created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Three plant biologists at Rutgers' Waksman Institute of Microbiology are obsessed with duckweed, a tiny aquatic plant with an unassuming name. Now they have convinced the federal government to focus its attention ...


DOE unveils experimental metagenomics data

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created Mar 30, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has released IMG/M, an experimental metagenome data management and analysis system.


Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences

Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In 1996, researchers from major genome sequencing centers around the world convened on the island of Bermuda and defined a finished genome as a gapless sequence with a nucleotide error rate of one or less ...


Babies, Bacteria and Breast Milk: Genome Sequence Reveals Evolutionary Alliance

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created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As every parent discovers, human babies are bubbling, burping processing plants that take in milk, extract compounds useful for rapid growth and development, and unceremoniously excrete the byproducts. Those ...


Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics

Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics

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created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microbes contribute to manifold human endeavors ranging from bioenergy to agriculture to medicine. Moreover, they make the Earth's biogeochemical cycles go round, a prerequisite for all life on the planet. ...


Standards for a New Genomic Era

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly available ...


Dry Soybean Pod

Joint Genome Institute completes soybean genome

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created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released a complete draft assembly of the soybean (Glycine max) genetic code, making it widely available to the research community to advance ...


Singapore scientists describe novel method for 3-D whole genome mapping research

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this week's Nature, Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) scientists report a technological advance in the study of gene expression and regulation in the genome's three-dimensional folding and looping state through the de ...


Scientists to sequence Eucalyptus genome

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created Jul 05, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An ambitious international effort has been launched today to decode the genome of Eucalyptus, one of the world’s most valuable fibre and paper-producing trees.



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