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… and graduate students to engage in real, impactful research projects with JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …

… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is …

… Meeting.  A wide array of invited speakers shared how research infrastructure – DNA sequencing, synthesis, … organisms can do. And we need the field’s context to see why it matters.” As his career progressed, Hungate has … these amazing technologies that the JGI has to identify and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale …

… looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved zinc … makes polar photosynthesizers tick. He’s working with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

… years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and … before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of DNA …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of … or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this …

… the CRISPR-Cas9 investigations began as “curiosity driven research.” In the early 2000s, UC Berkeley colleague and … Jill Banfield approached Doudna with repeated genetic sequences (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her … and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by the JGI), and the virus that infects it,  …