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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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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group. She has also served as the Functional Genomics Department Head for the Environmental Genomics and … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One …
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The JGI announces FY25 awardees for our Community Science Program Annual Call
Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries … awardee.  The CSP Annual call is focused on large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of … well as our smaller-scale New Investigator and Functional Genomics calls, here on our website.   See below for the …
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JGI@25: Expanding Metagenomics to Capture Viral Diversity
… the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group Lead at the JGI.  To understand the … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along with highlighting the viruses in …
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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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JGI Workshop at SIMB NP Meeting
… a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a … Science User Facility, has been developing and applying new genomics capabilities that address these issues. Check the …
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IMG/VR
… the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel …
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A Step Toward Controlling Soybean Rust
… yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio … Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …
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Genome sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus cabanillasii DSM17905, Xenorhabdus ehlersii DSM16337, Xenorhabdus japonica DSM16522, Xenorhabdus koppenhoeferii DSM18168, and Xenorhabdus mauleonii DSM17908
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Waiting to Respire
Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …
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Sequencing Sphagnum Leads to Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …
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