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Volvox carteri project on Medical News Today

The evolution of multicellularity occurred repeatedly and independently in diverse lineages including animals, plants, fungi, as well as green and red algae. “This transition is one of the great evolutionary events that shaped life on earth,” says co-first author Simon E. Prochnik, Ph.D., a Computationial Scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. “It has generated… [Read More]

Schizophyllum commune project on EurekAlert

One of the challenges in making cellulosic biofuels commercially viable is to cost-effectively deconstruct plant material to liberate fermentable energy-rich sugars. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is funding several projects focused on identifying enzymes in organisms that optimally degrade cellulosic feedstocks. One such source are fungi, which break down dead wood and leaf litter… [Read More]

Volvox carteri project on Web Newswire

The evolution of multicellularity occurred repeatedly and independently in diverse lineages including animals, plants, fungi, as well as green and red algae. This transition is one of the great evolutionary events that shaped life on earth, says co-first author Simon E. Prochnik, Ph.D., a Computational Scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. It has generated… [Read More]

Volvox carteri project on ACED

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute. Read more on ACED [Read More]

Volvox carteri project on redOrbit

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute. A comparison of the genomes of the… [Read More]

Volvox carteri project on NCTimes

Multicellularity is one of life’s great innovations. The ability of many individual cells to work together as a single being is so profound that scientists have regarded it as an immensely complicated process, requiring a huge amount of genetic retooling. But the process may have been simpler than previously thought, according to a new study… [Read More]

Volvox carteri project on EurekAlert

One contribution that may inform biofuels research is reported in the July 9 issue of Science (http://bit.ly/aSGJc3), where researchers led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Salk Institute present the 138 million nucleotide genome of Volvox carteri, a multicellular alga that captures light energy through photosynthesis. The DOE is supporting research into… [Read More]

Volvox carteri project on GenomeWeb

In this week’s issue of Science, research led by investigators at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute examines the organismal complexity of the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri. Simon Prochnik et al. sequenced the Volvox genome to 11.1-fold coverage using a whole-genome shotgun approach; when compared to Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, its unicellular relative, the team… [Read More]

DOE JGI’s role in managing Human Microbiome Project data on redOrbit

At JGI, Kyrpides oversees projects such as GenePRIMP, a highly rated quality control program for genome sequencing, and GOLD, the Genomes On-Line Database. GenePRIMP stands for “Gene PRediction IMprovement Pipeline, and it consists of a series of computational units that can be used to significantly improve the overall quality of the predicted genes in any… [Read More]

DOE JGI’s role in managing Human Microbiome Project data on Medical News

“The HMP project catalog is a unique worldwide resource,” says molecular biologist Nikos Kyrpides of Berkeley Lab’s Genomics Division, who heads the Genome Biology and Metagenomics Programs for the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and is the co-principal investigator of the DACC. “It has a central role in the HMP, not only in maintaining the list… [Read More]