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… special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny word. The 500 species described within the group … new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious disease. Streptomycetes are also abundant in soil and can be used as biocontrol agents and to promote plant growth. It is …

… part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among the interns were two … Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship Program, Susannah Tringe and Axel Visel hosted Imelda Forteza and …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) … Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data … symposium provides networking opportunities and fosters discussions on how to capture and characterize viral diversity, …

… novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of … deadline for proposal submission is Sept. 9, 2025, for inclusion in the November 2025 review. You can also find more …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of … produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As reported in the recent Database issue of … and contig sources.  The Impact Secondary metabolites are useful in a variety of fields including biotechnology, …

… viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, … C4 crops, as are the candidate biofuel feedstocks Miscanthus and switchgrass.  Innumerable road trips and hundreds of … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it … under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative through an award to MBD and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus . At that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than …

… single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  recently published in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Career Research Program (ECRP) award, which is also focused on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life … either jumpstart acceleration or optimize their code on GPUs. While the  OLCF is organizing nearly a dozen hackathons … world in 2019, only the JGI hackathon is particularly focused on developing bioinformatics applications instead of on …

… Sherbo, Jennifer E. Smith, Chin Chin Too, Brooke Weigel, Susanne Wilken, Jing Yuan, and Brittany N. Zepernick.    Each … novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of …