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With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. Goodstein held positions at … gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began developing larger comparative genomic …

Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science … (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion … and Environmental Research (BER), among others. New areas of emphasis, for those who are already familiar with …

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, …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has … source of both protein and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited more …

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 Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … City. Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. Grimwood heads the Library … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human …

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 …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other … 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include the sequencing and comparative …

… 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 …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact …