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… Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. … Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon ring, … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … as initiators of nitrogen loss in these waters. The top image on the left shows how, from a single bacterial cell …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting … Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from …

… JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced fungal genomes, omics data and comparative … asked and whether they are within DOE mission areas of bioenergy, carbon cycling, and biogeochemistry. This is a … and TCDB ( http://tcdb.org/ ) databases, respectively. For secondary metabolism clusters, we have developed in-house …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of … together a puzzle without necessarily knowing the final image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The meeting was a hybrid … form these blooms, all the way to individual cells, and the metabolites, vesicles, and virions they produce. To … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … up the pace at which researchers can extract the bioenergy secrets they hold. HT-SIP is a capability available to …

… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach would be greatly increased by having the … JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe , suggest that extracting high-quality genomes from soil metagenome data is …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … sorghum’s hardiness, so understanding sorghum’s survival secrets could change not only how we use and grow sorghum, …