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… as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …
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… just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: … range from traditional single cell sequencing and mini-metagenomics to more targeted approaches, such as …
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… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …
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… school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches some 580,000 square miles across … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of …
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… from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted Kjiersten Fagnan , JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer. JGI’s Portals, including Phytozome , IMG , GOLD , …
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… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …
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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … and synthesis work. This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … and the oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.” In his words, the history of the strawberry is …
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… Choice Awards . NERSC, JGI, ESnet are U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. The HPCwire Editors Choice Award … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence …
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… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …
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