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… Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent … 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

… about JGI’s  PhycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools. … the resources for free. 8.  Q: What makes a successful project? A: Combination of: DOE mission relevance Science … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this role he supervises the Genome … and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge University University in … vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from candidate phyla, major branches … in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to …

… I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special … And when those stomata are open, it’s the same pore in the leaf through which carbon dioxide enters the leaf for …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … City. Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. Grimwood heads the Library … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human …

… The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in … and multidisciplinary nature of DOE mission science projects, this initiative aims to encourage innovative … and selection processes, making it difficult to propose projects that truly integrated the capabilities of more than …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … anything. The collaborative consortium behind the GROWdb project demonstrates not only how researchers can …