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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 …

… soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming … (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

… specifically optimized for high-performance computing environments. … KBase is a critical partner in enabling systems … analyses, such as metabolic modeling, that go well beyond genome annotation and analysis. The JGI and KBase seek to … data on scales ranging from single genes and individual genomes to metagenomes to systems-level modeling and …

… pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop rotation, but soybean ( Glycine max ) also has the advantage … and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has … source of both protein and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited more …

… in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to … A., Hadjithomas M., Varghese N. J., Paez-Espino D., Hungate project, collaborators Perry R., Henderson G., Creevey C. … Hess M., Sczyrba A., Egan R., Kim T.W., Chokhawala H., Schroth G., Luo S., Clark D.S., Chen F., Zhang T., Mackie R.I., …

Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on …

Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These documents have been shared …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … pathway in guayale, a drought tolerant shrub. Melissa Roth of the University of California, Berkeley aims to …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding how the interactions …

… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing … rust disease resistance works in sugarcane could help protect other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many … of Experimental Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global …

Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing protocols so that researchers could compare results across … anything. The collaborative consortium behind the GROWdb project demonstrates not only how researchers can …