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… initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, and lead PIs cannot have been lead PI on any previously accepted JGI CSP or FICUS proposal.   … assess feasibility of a novel approach or form the foundation for a large-scale CSP proposal submission. Sequence …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … methane production to confirm that indeed, they were. The work was enabled in part by working with both the JGI and …

… need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. 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 organisms – …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in … scientific projects. These solutions include large-scale genome variants analyses, next-generation transcriptome de … assembly, Hadoop based on sequence analysis framework, etc. For example, this group was responsible for the …