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In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida … partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, …

… users and their science including technical capabilities offered, proposal review procedures, and the annual user … recommendations to the JGI regarding technical capabilities offered, including areas where more or less capacity is … annual JGI User Meeting, as well as input on other aspects of the meeting such as duration, location, and cost; …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for …

… the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand … data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … (Berkeley Lab). All of this information — 318 metagenomes, 98 plant transcriptomes and 314 metabolomic …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse metagenomics samples. The …

… joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … crops because it leads to reduced harvest yields. Over thousands of years, farmers have selected for cereal plants … Program , sequences of several hundred green millet plant genomes were generated, though the final analyses focused on …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and … identify, and characterize more than 200 microbial genomes that were mapped to nearly 30 major previously …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … almost impossible.”  When the team was finished with this phase, they found that the protein family diversity within …