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April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … workforce. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado …
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… studies. This conference is inspired by the vision of standardized fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs) designed for precise manipulation and reproducible experimentation of microbiome dynamics. Together, we will explore …
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UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016. She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … californicus (and cone snails in general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a …
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UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for … to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. In addition to the knowledge gained on the …
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Krishna is responsible for the design and maintenance of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data warehouse, and integration of genomic and metagenomic data with transcriptomics and …
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Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional … annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on automating intra-department data …
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… more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive …
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A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …
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… food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …
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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 dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel …
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