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JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the … By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united … installed at the  Integrative Genomics Building , JGI’s newly-built home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab …

… algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid production. In their approved proposal, … collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned … evolved from a white paper approved through JGI’s CSP New Investigator call to a full-scale submission. She aims …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… ramorum genome. The JGI generated the organism’s DNA code in tandem with a closely-related plant pathogen … in their neighborhoods and nearby forests with the right tools to track infection. The parallel development of the … 1;313(5791):1261-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1128796 Science News of the Day: Stokstad E. Genetics. Genomes highlight …

Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Los Alamos National … and analyzed its metabolome to understand the metabolic processes involved in responding to various stresses, and …

Kuhn in his 25th Anniversary presentation. “Those driven by new tools and those driven by new concepts.” Patrinos went on to … time (1986) 98% of the human genome was thought to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources …

… recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating … compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing …

… of this field, the JGI has leveraged metagenomics to boost understanding of environmental viruses. In 2016, Nikos … have better, easier access to these viral genomes. The new database was called IMG/VR. It featured samples from … all over the world, including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 computationally identified viral …

… associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or life-saving drugs. A better … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern … they can change position within a genome — into certain DNA segments has led the fern to its gene hoarding and those …

They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  … affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by killing … for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other tools have focused on identifying only specific plasmids or …