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…     … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data … Professor Matthias Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the …

… a special kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter …

… in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar regions. While microbial … cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A … sulfur bacteria population spiked to 83%, only to dramatically fall to 1% in early spring and rebound by the late …

… from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter …

… and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the … … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award (2021-67019-34608) to M.J.W. FTICR-MS analyses were performed … was performed at the University of Colorado Cancer Center’s Genomics Shared Resource, which is supported by the Cancer …

… natural engineers with special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient … found there utilize a unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published …     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  Dehalococcoidia . Some  Dehalococcoidia have a knack for …

… even animal and human (for the first time) gut and taxonomically classified into 27 distinct clades (17 of them without … an early version of the paper at the 2018 Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium. The work also used … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter …

… ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the story behind that … from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… sudden drops in salt levels, enabling it to take in more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, … of Pelagophyceae, a microalga shown to thrive in both nutrient-rich and nutrient-poor conditions. It lives in a … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed …