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… to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, … genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … diversity and their metabolic functional potential. This research enables us to better understand how microbial …
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… data portal I’ve been working on with my colleagues Drew Doering and Bryce Foster and too many others to name at JGI for the last two years or so. SMC is now released and … long, it’s definitely because we like talking about our science. So, sorry, but not really sorry. I haven’t …
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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s … challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to environmental changes. The program … At its core, the program investigates photosynthesis — the process that transforms solar energy into chemical …
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… Our research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics … of viral complexity and evolution Our research focuses on discovering and characterizing giant viruses, which possess …
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… Celebrating 25 years of genomics research 2022 marked the JGI’s 25th anniversary. We revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental …
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… All staff members of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley … To uphold Berkeley Lab’s enduring 90-year legacy of team science—bringing science solutions to the world—and to …
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… The JGI is leveraging its current partnerships to offer new … users through a BER data ecosystem. A data ecosystem is a connected resource where data from different organizations is … users together through our systems, we build far-reaching communities of researchers to bring down barriers to …
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… The DNA Synthesis Science User Advisory Committee is chartered by the … and scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor do they direct the …
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… Natural Prodcast, a podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Welcome back … 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 … genome mining is, if I want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science …
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… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so … parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and computational exploration … measurements ( Who is active when/where, and how? ). The JGI Viral Genomics group attempts to address this question …
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