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… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … of Experimental Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in … the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research …

Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab … users who made use of our data. We completed 39,870 projects in FY24 We generated 871 Terabases of sequence We …

… year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from reseachers who translate genomic … Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function. Tapping into these functions allows …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified … to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding how the interactions …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a … from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed … 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into … Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea … and how it gave rise to the different pathways we see today is not only important to understand early life, but …

The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial … technology in order to enhance the quality of single-cell genomes and directly link functional information with … DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling …

The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is a board convened by the JGI Director to provide a scientific and … SAC is chartered to render advice, guidance, and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the … from the CSP Proposal Study Panel on prioritization of CSP projects and, with concurrence from the DOE Office of …