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Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing …
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… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental sequences across the globe, then using these sequences to … Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets …
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JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the … Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the …
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Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … he said. These enzymes are crucial for creating nucleic acids and proteins, as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied. As evolution has …
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Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What …
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Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to apply for … approaches, such as BioOrthogonal Non-Canonical Amino acid Tagging (BONCAT). Q: Do you offer scholarships and/or …
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… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …
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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s …
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Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. … on developing plant functional genomic resources (e.g. sequenced mutant collections, transformation technology, …
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Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his … PhycoCosm, a comparative algal genomics resource. Nucleic Acids Res. 49(D1):D1004-D1011 Swift et al (2021) Anaerobic … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech. 2010; 28: …
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