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Tiny Green Algae Reveal Large Genomic Variation
A decade after the complete representative genomes of three Ostreococcus picoplankton groups were sequenced, researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 13 members of a natural Ostreococcus population.
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Mutant Rice Database for Bioenergy Research
Boosting yields of bioenergy feedstock crops such as grasses requires a functional genomics resource for grass models involved in plant cell wall biosynthesis studies. Using fast-neutron irradiation, rice researchers were able to create the first major, large-scale collection of mutations for grass models.
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Lessons from Simulating A Deep Ocean Oil Spill
Researchers present the first complete picture of how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the released oil. They were also able to recover high-quality genomes of the key microbial players, and determine the metabolic factors driving the shifts between microbial communities.
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Our Projects
Developing an Ice Plant Gene Atlas
The ice plant was the first reported halophytic, facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) species, meaning that the plant can be induced to switch from C3 photosynthesis to CAM following water-deficit or salinity stress treatment.
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Exploring Deep Biosphere Microbial Communities
The data from one of the least understood habitats on Earth will have implications for our understanding of global energy and nutrient cycles, the potential for deep terrestrial disposal of nuclear waste and geo-engineering for CO₂ storage, while also providing insights about how life could be sustained on other planets.
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A Suillus Genus Genome Atlas
As symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF), Suillus spp. play critical roles in the function of forest ecosystems by providing their plant hosts with mineral resources in exchange for photosynthetically fixed carbon.
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DOE JGI Database of DNA viruses and retroviruses debuts on IMG platform
In a series of four articles published in the Database issue of the Nucleic Acids Research journal, DOE JGI researchers report on the latest updates to several publicly accessible databases and computational tools that benefit the global community of microbial researchers.
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Benchmark Study for Improving Microbial Community Profiling
Researchers used synthetic and natural microbial lake communities to compare the microbial community profiles generated from high throughput short-read sequencing and high throughput long-read sequencing approaches.
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Better Microbial Genome Binning with MetaBAT
An automated tool called MetaBAT that automatically groups large genomic fragments assembled from metagenome sequences to reconstruct single microbial genomes.
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User Program Info
JGI-NERSC Microbiome Data Science Call
The Microbiome Data Science call will enable users to perform state-of-the-art computational genomics and metagenomics research and help them translate sequence information, generated by the DOE JGI or elsewhere, into biological discovery.
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Large-scale CSP Call
The CSP Annual Call is focused on large-scale sequence-based genomic science projects that address questions of relevance to DOE missions in sustainable biofuel production, global carbon cycling, and biogeochemistry.
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JGI-EMSL Collaborative Science Call
The FICUS call between DOE JGI and Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL) represents a unique opportunity for researchers to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization in one proposed research project.
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Uncovered: 1000 New Microbial Genomes
DOE JGI scientists have taken a decisive step forward in uncovering the planet’s microbial diversity, reporting the release of 1,003 phylogenetically diverse bacterial and archaeal reference genomes—the single largest release to date—in Nature Biotechnology.
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Fungal Enzymes Team Up to More Efficiently Break Down Cellulose
In Nature Microbiology, a team led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara has found for the first time that early lineages of fungi can form complexes of enzymes capable of degrading plant biomass. The work was enabled by harnessing the capabilities of two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities: the DOE JGI and EMSL.
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Finding A New Major Gene Expression Regulator in Fungi
DOE JGI scientists report the prevalence of a particular DNA base modification (6mA) in the earliest branches of the fungal kingdom.
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