Search

… 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. …

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 …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as … plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics technologies, keen … breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the quality of those genomes, is rising. The … at the JGI and KBase toward integrative biology and hear from researchers who are applying genomic sequence …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum … potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of …

UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … began in 2014, pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or …

Ms. Ballon has a degree in molecular biology & biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s … … The Manager of Communications & Outreach is responsible for sustaining the integrity of the JGI brand …

Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch … School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional development experiences that increase …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released its newest 5-Year … large scale data, and professional expertise while responsibly managing people and resources. “The plan looks …