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A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … Finding the RNA virus snowflakes in the snowstorm of genomic data involved developing special computational …
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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user … cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the cellular level, …
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Engagement Webinar: Harnessing JGI’s Metabolomics Capabilities
… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … and Ben Bowen of the  JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny Mortimer, Director of Plant Systems Biology at … analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics proposal calls, projects can request up to 50 polar …
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Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov.,
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Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae
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User Advisory Committees
All staff members of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to … we nurture in our workplace and seek to establish with our stakeholders. The guiding principles for …
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Polar Phytoplankton Need Zinc to Cope with the Cold
Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. He’s working with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … collaboration with the JGI Algal Program, which explores genomics of algal diversity and biology to support basic …
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Simon Roux
Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the … Microbiology Resource Announcements … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …
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Uri Neri
… computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. … At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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Designer DNA: JGI Helps Users Blaze New Biosynthetic Pathways
A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … their collaborations. One review article in the collection, Genomics-enabled analysis of specialized metabolism in … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …
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