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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … The JGI updates its Sorghum bicolor reference genome and releases it to the community. 2014: GENCODE project begins. …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … Genome Institute in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which … Highly Cited Researcher, Biology and Biochemistry, top 1%, by Clarivate Analytics 2020 van Niel International Prize for …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted by Congress in 1980 for Superfund sites which are … microbial samples from wells at the site in 2007, 2009, and 2010. DNA was extracted from the samples that were sequenced …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … cucumber roots were rinsed with cold water to stimulate the release of zoospores by Olpidium . Zoospores were then …

… oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … Neocallimastix californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the …

DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than … Energy Joint Genome Institute Community Sequencing Program (CSP 502951, 2016, Population and evolutionary genomics of …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user … he’s interested in finding ways to boost visibility of the CSP to encourage more plant proposals and provide feedback …

Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Andressa M. Venturini, Valentin Waschulin, Flavia Winck Vischi, Jennifer Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution … other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two …