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Sullivan on VirSorter in WIRED

Sequencing all the DNA in a sample is pretty straightforward—except then you have to sort out the DNA. “It’s almost like you took hundreds of different puzzles and threw all the pieces together,” says Tanja Woyke, a microbiologist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and project contributor. “Now you have to put those puzzles together and figure… [Read More]

DOE JGI Interns Share Their Summer Experiences

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As… [Read More]

2015 Call for ETOP Letters of Intent

1. INTRODUCTION The University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (“University” or “LBNL”) is soliciting Letters of Intent for the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) 2015 award. This is a solicitation for Letters of Intent to participate in the ETOP. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. The University… [Read More]

Banfield collaboration in Quanta magazine

“We used to think there were just plants and animals,” said Edward Rubin, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute. “Then we got microscopes, and got microbes. Then we got small levels of DNA sequencing.” Quanta magazine focused on a recent project led by Jill Banfield in Colorado, one that significantly increased the known… [Read More]

Collaborator Janet Jansson in Quanta magazine

“[S]oon after the turn of the century, new high-octane DNA sequencing methods made it possible to sequence thousands or even millions of genes almost instantly. These new, speedier methods meant researchers could easily sequence the collective genomes of the sample, known as a metagenome, for the first time. Suddenly, it was possible to scan the… [Read More]

Data Quality, Data Sets and New Directions: Plotting IMG’s Next 10 Years

At the recent 10th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment meeting hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, Nikos Kyrpides, head of the DOE JGI Prokaryote Super Program, received the Van Niel International Prize in Bacterial Systematics. The Van Niel Prize was established… [Read More]

Promoting Safety & Wellness at Work and at Home

Marking its 9th year, the annual JGI Safety and Wellness Fair took place on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, drawing around 120 attendees to our Courtyard. Over a dozen booths promoted various aspects of health and safety, both at work and at home. The JGI Safety & Wellness (SWELL) Team, a group of employees who have… [Read More]

Meraculous: Genome Assembly from Months to Minutes

“Using the parallelized version of Meraculous, we can now assemble the entire human genome in about eight minutes using 15,360 computer processor cores. With this tool, we estimate that the output from the world’s biomedical sequencing capacity could be assembled using just a portion of NERSC’s Edison supercomputer,” says Evangelos Georganas, a UC Berkeley graduate… [Read More]

Launching the JGI Diversity & Inclusion Initiative

On April 3, 2015, JGI and Genomics Division supervisors took part in a half-day retreat on diversity & inclusion. “About 50 supervisors from Genomics and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) gathered earlier this month at the retreat for talks and discussions on implicit biases, what an inclusive workplace looks like, how to implement processes in recruiting… [Read More]