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2014 Food Drive Collection Tops 1,700 lbs

The annual JGI Holiday Food Drive of 2014 brought nearly a ton of food to the the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. Over half of the total came from the family of software developer Bobby Otillar, who pledged to match the amount of food donated by fellow JGIers pound-for-pound for the third year in a row. This… [Read More]

NCBI Genomes Reprocessed using IMG’s Annotation Pipelines and Distributed via JGI’s Genome Portals

The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system provides tools for analyzing the structural and functional annotations of metagenomes and single genomes in a comparative context. At the core of the IMG system is a data warehouse that contains genome and metagenome datasets (sets of genome sequence fragments from microbial communities) sequenced at the DOE Joint Genome… [Read More]

Shipworm project in the Washington Post

“Shipworms were already weird animals, but they just got weirder. The ocean-dwelling clams, which actually look much more like slimy worms, are some of the only creatures in the world that can eat wood. Now scientists have figured out that shipworms are even more unique than we thought…” The Washington Post article was published November 11, 2014. Learn… [Read More]

Celebrating National Bioenergy Day

In honor of National Bioenergy Day, we thought we’d highlight some of our recent projects that are related to developing plant biomass, as well as agricultural waste and forestry byproducts, to generate heat and energy. Among the plants being considered for biomass crops are eucalyptus trees, which grow in 100 countries and cover over 40… [Read More]

Training the Next Generation of Talent

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a… [Read More]

nucleotid.es genome assembly tool in GenomeWeb

“Nucleotid.es, a publicly available repository developed by a researcher at the Joint Genome Institute, aims to provide a comprehensive list of genome assemblers and associated benchmarks that will help researchers in the genomics community select and use the most appropriate assembly tools for their sequencing projects.” Full story on GenomeWeb. (Note: Free registration may be… [Read More]

In Memoriam: Falk Warnecke

Falk Warnecke was a postdoctoral fellow at the DOE JGI’s Microbial Ecology Program from March 2005 until June 2009. Among the publications that resulted from his work here, he was first author on the termite hindgut metagenome paper that appeared in Nature. Warnecke died on July 15, 2014 at the age of 42. Within a… [Read More]

#JGInPoetry – Genomics in Verse

Our call for verses to help us communicate our science yielded several poems, a couple of which even met the writing challenges we set. We’ve shared these on social media and we hope the muse continues to inspire as we look forward to receiving more poems about genomics, energy and environment.  “Ode to a Gutless… [Read More]

Prochlorococcus “genomic backbones” study in The Scientist

“Some of us did not believe that microbes are infinitely diverse,” despite a prevailing assumption, said Steve Giovannoni, who studies bacterioplankton at Oregon State University and who was not involved in the study. “That very high diversity is channeled into patterns, and we’re starting to see what those patterns look like.” Read the full story in… [Read More]

Every Day is Earth Day @JGI

More than four decades ago, the first celebration of Earth Day raised the idea of protecting the environment to a greater public awareness. Today, the annual event is a reminder of the longstanding goal to provide a cleaner, healthier and sustainable environment for everyone to live in. Here at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint… [Read More]