Biosciences Area scientist Deepika Awasthi won the 2022 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition held on October 27. The competition, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and co-hosted by the Intellectual Property Office and the Haas School of Business, was designed to provide scientist-entrepreneurs at the Lab with experience in pitching to key stakeholders such as potential investors and partners.
JGI Adds Actinobacteria Chapter in the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea
In Cell Genomics, an international consortium led by researchers at the Joint Genome Institute team generated 824 new Actinobacteria genomes, which were were combined with nearly 5,000 publicly available ones and 1,100 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from sequenced environmental samples in a previous study. The team also analyzed over 80,000 biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) for synthesis of secondary metabolites, in line with the JGI’s strategic initiatives. The work builds off more than a decade of work developing the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) compendium. Learn more on the JGI website.
Ten Simple Rules for Getting and Giving Credit for Data
Generating and analyzing data associated with scientific research can be challenging and complicated, to say the least. But the importance of sharing and giving credit to those who produced the data is foundational to furthering the impact of the work. Learn more about ten simple rules for getting and giving credit for data.
EGSB Researchers Tapped for Bridge2AI
A team headed by the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division’s Chris Mungall, will be part of the National Institute of Health program, Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI). Mungall and his colleagues will be collaborators in the Standards Core, led by the University of Colorado.
JGI Reveals DNA Thievery in Ferns
The undeniable power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the JGI took on the Open Green Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. A recent paper published in Natural Communications on Ceratopteris richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG and solves an ongoing mystery in ferns.
For a long time, this immense size and chromosomal hoarding characteristic in ferns had been thought to be the result of multiple whole-genome duplications. The problem with that theory was that the handful of documented WGDs in ferns could not explain the massive size of most fern genomes. Learn more about what mysteries JGI collaborators solved in C-fern on the JGI’s website.
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