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This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant …

SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This episode, Rex …

… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the pipelines for directed finishing and co-led … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed …

All participants and staff of the JGI events are required to adhere to the following Code of Conduct. Event organizers will enforce this Code throughout … this policy. Our aim in hosting an event is to build a stronger community. Our goal is to create an environment where …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … JGI’s early sequencing of C. reinhardtii became available, data mined by the JGI shows that those sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference genome is cited …