User Stories
ARS Researchers: Want your research featured on the SCINet website and newsletter?
Research highlights from researchers who use SCINet resources are added quarterly. Contact SCINet-Newsletter@USDA.GOV and use this short guide for authors (opens pdf in this browser window).
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Guidemaker: software for CRISPR based gene function discovery
CRISPR-Cas is a powerful tool for gene editing. CRISPR can also be used to discover gene function by disrupting every gene in the genome and screening millions of cells in parallel.
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SCINet accelerates development of a big-data driven and inter-disciplinary technology platform for soybean post-genomic research
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a versatile, nutrients-laden, economically invaluable crop with capacity to restore soil fertility through atmospheric nitrogen fixation. It holds great significance in ensuring adequate global nutritional food security and environmentally friendly sustainable agriculture.
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Putting flowers on the map: Quantifying spatio-temporal patterns in floral resources for pollinators
Flowers provide critical nectar and pollen resources to support foraging, learning and memory, and reproduction of pollinating insects, but there are very few large-scale maps of floral resources for pollinators.
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Climate driving change: from dryland agro-ecosystems across the globe to the spread of a livestock disease across the western US
Rising global temperatures have cascading effects on Earth’s agro-ecosystems. To better understand and contextualize these effects,
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Faster, Better Metagenome Analysis: One genome, one contig for metagenome samples sequenced with PacBio HiFi reads
All plant and animal species must interact with microbes to survive and thrive.
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SCINet resources for creating livestock reference genomes
As a scientist in USDA-ARS’s Animal Genomics and Improvement Lab, one of our missions is to generate scientific resources used to improve our ability to raise cattle, sheep and goats to their fullest potential...
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Selecting Robust Climate Change Projections for Agricultural Systems
Scientists of many disciplines, including agricultural fields, often use climate change projections in their research
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Generating whole-genome data from a single insect: PacBio HiFi genome assembly and HiC scaffolding pipelines for reference quality genomes using SCINet
The damage that insect pests cost to human health and agriculture is enormous. For instance, invasive insects cost ...
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Spatial Disease Modelling on the Ceres HPC
A fundamental need to meet USDA ARS’s Grand Challenge initiative is to improve agricultural production while reducing the impact of the emerging pests, pathogens, and invasive species that threaten US livestock.
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The SCINet-LTAR phenology working group: Improving the accuracy of agriculturally-relevant models to meet growing and changing food demand
Meeting growing and changing demands for food and agricultural products requires models and forecasts that accurately characterize hydrology-soil-climate interactions...
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The ARS Arthropod Genomics Research (AGR) working group: Agency-wide advancement in research capabilities to address stakeholder concerns
Arthropod pests cause damage to crop, livestock and forestry products, as well as ornamental plants and urban structures, that inflicts an economic cost of several billion dollars annually...
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Antigenic and genetic evolution of contemporary swine H1 influenza viruses in the US
Influenza A viruses (IAV) that circulate in North American pigs maintain a high degree of diversity determined by the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, especially those of the H1 subtype.