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… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. … Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) has another …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and wet lab experiments, to computational modeling …

… American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While … Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due …

… made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… 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 …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists … the data and compute platforms and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the …

… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the …

… right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, Christina Hazard, Rachel Mackelprang, … eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs …