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… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer …

… insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector … to vectorize protein sequences. Sevim is part of the JGI Genome R&D Group and is one of more than 100 scientists and …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … usable for conventional food crops. For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … sequencing from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … changing salinity of the environment. ( The annotated algal genome is available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm data portal.) …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … international collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … the JGI and EMSL.  … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … from previously understudied clades, establishing their evolutionary relationships and leading to the discovery of …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s pivotal NMR (nuclear magnetic …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …