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… to the California gold rush. And we’ll talk about a new JGI paper that’s just come out where I got the chance to do … did? What we’re talking about here is a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s … Microbiomes” paper is here . Read the associated JGI news release here . Software we discussed, used for genome …

Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and … there a way to do that? DAN UDWARY: Well, so there’s good news and bad news on that. So one of the things that we’re trying to do …

… and head of the Secondary Metabolites Science Program at JGI, and also my boss, Nigel Mouncey. I got him on to talk … never forced it on me, but we always had these scientific news magazines lying around at home. And I would just pick … looking at emails and I just saw this pop up. And saw a C&E News job little box and I thought, wow, this would be …

… called Mylotag. Wyeth was later acquired by Pfizer in 2009. So, a simple mistake, but I’m happy to be able to … fundamentals. What is beautiful for natural products is nature! Nature does this sort of – if you think of nature as … So I wanted to ask you also about – because you were in the news recently – TSRI has acquired the Pfizer strain …

… describe. [ Go here to learn more about Tiny Earth and the JGI’s role in the project by watching Amanda Hurley’s … that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the popular news recently because a lot of soldiers in the Iraq and … we have no idea what natural products are doing in nature. And it’s a really difficult thing to unpack …

… actually, everything is funding, right, isn’t it? I thank JGI for sequencing a lot of fungi. But the thing with them – … I know it’s early on, but you do have a project with the JGI. It’s doing some some fungal genome sequencing, I … or?   NANCY: Well, so, I’m involved in two projects with JGI. The fungal sequencing one is with a host of many other …

Celebrating 25 years of genomics research 2022 marked the JGI’s 25th anniversary. We revisited a number of notable … energy and environmental challenges.  Commissioned for the JGI’s 25th anniversary, the JGI mural references dozens of iconic JGI contributions to …

Europe. So if there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And … know a lot about them by their mate, what their role in nature, how have they been selected for or how do they … was fascinating, I think. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, and that was a JGI Community Sequencing Project. You’re right, yeah. NADINE …

… state of things, and what we’re hoping to accomplish at JGI in this area. If this series of podcast episodes has … recommend David Hopwood’s book called  “Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine.” It’s obviously focused more on the … of ways in terms of, you know, just being able to harness nature to do complicated chemical reactions for us. ALISON: …

… for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. JGI is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … how funny, you know, the human endeavor of understanding nature is: we want to categorize things into these arbitrary … to understand all of the amazing biological chemistry in nature! In this introductory episode, Alison Takemura and …

… the fact that many of our modern medicines are derived from nature, and in many cases from plants. And so I think of … people aspects of things, because a lot of what we do at JGI in terms of the sequencing that we do is very … plants and bringing them back is not your jam, the good news is there’s this amazing resource that can be provided …

… do when you’re exploring your systems. Because I think the JGI has a little bit of a different approach. We don’t … a long time.  MARCY: It will. Are you going to solve it at JGI?  DAN: No.  [LAUGHING]  ALISON: Don’t shortchange JGI!  DAN: JGI is great, but we’re not solving that …