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Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of the  IMG Plasmid Resource (IMG/PR) , which …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … crops as well. In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence … including genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US … States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to … to standardize the process. They noted this may be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in … RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved transcriptomics …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer … challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this … I’ve been really focused with academia. And so this was the first time I was introduced into what a government lab and …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock … of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … analyzing the diversity present in 4X switchgrass, we were surprised by the number of 8X individuals that had been …