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Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 … to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of multiple Department of Energy Office of Science National … individual user facilities. A Letter of Intent is required. For accepted proposals, sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers.  …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers.  …

… remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature … States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, … as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the …

… . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. … Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … -- more reproducible, more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …