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… led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal … in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched scale-up of algal geomics and PhycoCosm … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an … in their hunt for anaerobic fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible —they … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …

… in which data is not publicly available in JGI systems or outside repositories. Full access is granted to proposal … Portal, MycoCosm, PhycoCosom, Phytozome, or IMG) and outside repositories (e.g. NCBI SRA or GenBank; GNPS2) as … and constructs are made publicly available through outside repositories (e.g. the Inventory of Composable …

… viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses … and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant … lineages in the NCLDV group infect mainly protists and algae, and some of them have genomes in the megabase range. …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically characterized at … genetic makeup predisposes them to, or protects them from, disease. Much of the work on genome editing has … across IMG/M’s assembled metagenomic data. It turned out that some of these were shorter than the typical Cas12d …