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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots … researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists everywhere. …

… could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, … have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear …

… They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a … bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah … Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series …

… series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like. …

… sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… 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 …

… (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into … how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these …