“Using the single-celled sequencing techniques that she had perfected at the Joint Genome Institute, Woyke and her colleagues ended up with exactly 201 genomes from these candidate phyla, representing 29 branches on the tree of life that scientists knew nothing about. ‘For many phyla, this was the first genomic data anyone had seen,’ she says.”… [Read More]

“Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is an unlikely model for plant evolution, but is a useful one because it has undergone major habitat shifts: it evolved from marine algae into a terrestrial flowering plant, then moved back to the sea again.” Among the 10 papers that were included the Editors’ Choice list of the Nature journal is the… [Read More]

“Microbiologists often seek life in the planet’s extremes — from below ice sheets to within geysers. But Appalachian Basin scientists found hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, also provides its own inhabited extremes in their backyard.” In Discover magazine’s list of top 100 science stories of 2016 is a study from The Ohio State University researchers that led… [Read More]

Six of the DOE JGI’s researchers are among the most highly cited in the world. That’s according to the annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters. (Click here to see the full list.) The 2016 list focused on Highly Cited Papers (defined in the Methodology section as… [Read More]

At the recently concluded supercomputing conference (SC16), students from the University of Science and Technology of China, who went by “Team SwanGeese,” won the Student Cluster Competition. (Click here to read the SC16 story about the winners.) One of the team’s advisers was JGI’s Zhong Wang, head of the Genome Analysis group. Zhong was tapped to participate by… [Read More]

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer through the Biotech Partners program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates and feature enhancements to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered… [Read More]

On Wednesday, October 12 at 10am Pacific time, PLOS is hosting a #SciWed redditAMA related to a recent Plos Genetics paper on a fungus that severely impacts banana crop yields. Igor Grigoriev, DOE JGI’s Fungal Genomics head, is participating, along with DOE JGI collaborators Steve Goodwin at USDA-ARS and Gert Kema at Wageningen University. Check out… [Read More]

The JGI Safety and Wellness Team is a group of employees who focus on promoting safety and wellness in the workplace and at home. Formerly known as the Safety Culture Group, each member is an advocate of safety and ergonomics and engages in activities that promote healthy living, wellness, and sustainability. As our surrounding environments… [Read More]

When the poplar genome sequence, generated by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, was published in the September 15, 2006 issue of the journal Science, we planted a commemorative sapling on our front lawn that was clonally propagated from the poplar or black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa, whose DNA was used for the study. (Click here to see the… [Read More]