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… joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to expand the JGI’s portfolio of user companies. Now the Department of Energy is uniting National Labs and industry, including … funded by an industry partner to perform a defined scope of work using the JGI’s unique facilities, equipment, and …

… more than 50,000 genomes that we derived from meta-genome sequences. As always, you’ll find transcripts and show notes … for us– what organisms people use for genome mining, why it’s called genome mining, how the biosynthetic gene … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a … then genomics happened. Dan: Yeah, I did my first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in … working with you, Dan, on this one, and we said, “Well, why don’t we have you know, the bioinformaticians go against …

… The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates the biological … into practical applications, including sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, natural products, and environmental …

… Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for … sample QC requirements and protocols Obtaining DNA and RNA of suitable quantity and quality has been the rate-limiting … step for many projects at the JGI. The quality of the starting material is one of the greatest predictors …

… stories about natural products, so you can get a feel for why I think they’re so important, and we’ll start to explain … right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so … pathways in a microbial cell, it looks like. It could be a eukaryotic cell, but you know, it’s like a big rectangle …

… are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a … there are any kind of dated references to the news, that’s why. But it was a really fun conversation. And I think … it would work, but we actually found fosmids. And we sequenced the whole fosmid at the time with Sanger …

… about the basics of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary … biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean … IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff in the Integrative … from plants, fungi, algae, non-medical microbes, microbial communities, and other relevant organisms. We …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast– a … least, talk to us, first about my definitions of things and why I am wrong, and also talk about some of the great … to approach it is more related to what JGI does, which is sequence genomes. And we just published last year in the …

… at genomes and seeing where the really hard things to sequence were, and wondering what those … what those were … functional was these secondary metabolite pathways. So why was that? What is it about secondary metabolite pathways … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And …