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Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots …

… analysis tools developed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In … bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

… could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the …

… are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… the functions of the biosynthetic gene clusters that produce them. The Impact Secondary metabolites are microbial … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … yield new tools for pest control. Secondary metabolites are highly regulated in bacteria, making it difficult to …

… by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed with two main objectives. First …

… uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated … from metagenomes is challenging and often results in highly fragmented data, which limits the ability of …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database …

… carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. … in carbon sequestration, understanding how it responds to higher temperatures and a changing environment is vital to …