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… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of … about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those sequenced, roughly half of all genes have completely unknown … of the paper, called it “a call to action for many communities” including educational partners, citizen …
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… The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be … the foundation for a large-scale CSP proposal submission. Sequence requests should not exceed 3 Tb in total. Proposals … about the general review process or get details on the internal synthetic biology review process . …
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… FY 2026 DOE Metrics Sequencing Quarter Total Bases (Trillions) Operating Hours Goal … = 91 days; Actual Operation = 24 days due to significant sequencer downtime related to the shelter-in-place. ††† … data. FY05-07 Sequencing Goals and Results Fiscal Year Sequence (GB) Operating Hours Targets Actual* Targets Actual …
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… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … in learning how environmental conditions influence viral-host interactions in three groups: cyanophages, …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … JGI brings and being able to be a part of groundbreaking research is very sentimental to me.” Mentors: Crysten …
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… marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some of which have … Impact By collecting and sequencing dominant haloarchaeal sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on … gene transfer events. Such events can occur in response to viral infections and are important for virus-host …
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… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s … in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, provided by the Joint Genome … builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though not formally analyzed or …
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… Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions … will further my goal of resolving the poorly-understood viral pressures on carbon cycling dynamics at the …
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… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage The … to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses. New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum genomes from plants selected by a team …
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… the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also … to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …
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