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… in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …

… paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that … Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

… and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules were filled with … trainings that they later reported were incredibly valuable to their careers going forward. Watch this short video … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth … of Oslo, Aaron Robinson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rebecca Smith of the University of Wisconsin, Maggie …

… month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of … CSP and the JGI-EMSL FICUS programs and brings expertise in metagenomics and novel applications for long-read DNA …

… more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools developed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US …

… uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short …

… the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

… own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. …