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US Department of Energy to Provide $30M for Plant Functional Genomics Research
DOE said the awards will support research into gene function in plants relevant to the sustainable production of bioenergy and bioproducts.
Metagenomic Microbiome Analysis Expands Known Phylogenetic Diversity of Earth's Bacteria, Archaea
This microbial catalog can help in understanding secondary-metabolite biosynthetic potential and resolving thousands of host linkages to uncultivated viruses.
New Human Gut Microbial Catalog Expands Number of Reference Genomes, Known Proteins
The Unified Human Gastrointestinal Genome (UHGG) and Unified Human Gastrointestinal Protein (UHGP) catalogs include more than 4,600 human gut microbial representatives.
DoE Awards $64M in Funding to Groups Using Genomics to Study Plants, Microbes
The projects are focused on the impact of microbe communities on soil nutrient cycling, and the relationship between gene function and beneficial plant traits.
Researchers focused on using existing computational methods to fill in gaps in the human microbiome without reference genomes.