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Phylogenetic diversity of metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) from the Canada Basin and Beaufort Sea

August 23, 2017

DOE User Facilities Partner for Greater Scientific Impact

EMSL and DOE JGI announce FY 2018 FICUS projects Two Department of Energy user facilities,… [Read More]

The importance of standards is dramatically illustrated when they don’t exist or are not commonly accepted. an international team led by DOE JGI researchers has developed standards for the minimum metadata to be supplied with single amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) submitted to public databases. (Zosia Rostomian, Berkeley Lab Creative Services)

August 9, 2017

Defining Standards for Genomes from Uncultivated Microorganisms

Expanding minimum information standards for single-cell genomics, metagenomics datasets. During the Industrial Revolution, factories began… [Read More]

Users can look for patterns across data sets in the DOE JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) database with the help of NERSC’s supercomputer Cori. (Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

July 25, 2017

DOE User Facilities Join Forces to Tackle Biology’s Big Data

Inaugural Collaborative Science Call Yields Six Proposals Melding Genomics, Supercomputing Six proposals have been selected… [Read More]

June 12, 2017

Uncovered: 1000 New Microbial Genomes

Potential biotech applications seen with release of 1,003 reference bacterial and archaeal genomes. The… [Read More]