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Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious …

National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through  the JGI proposal calls . … Work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was conducted …

… of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

Neri is a 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, …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this … (NERSC) has another supercomputer, Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … brings several of these approaches together into the same workflow, then uses a machine-learning model to give its … led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, … annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on automating intra-department data exchange and …