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The fungus that made itself at home
… the lignin behind. The brown rot Serpula lacrymans is typically found in spruce and other conifers in boreal forests. … to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo … and including researchers at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, compared the …
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JGI@25: Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
… science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Oh, the magical world of the cow stomach. Rumen – … in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to … of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from …
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Frigoriflavimonas asaccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic esterase and protease producing bacterium isolated from Antarctica
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A More Intuitive Phytozome Interface
… version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On August 6, 2021,  version 12 of Phytozome will be retired, and  version 13 … Below are some answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the transition from Phytozome v12 to v13. Why is it … in v13. However, the genomes included in PhytoMine will typically lag the full set of released genomes available in …
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Charting Progress toward Professional Goals
… researcher who serves as their mentor. By contributing to projects that will help them build skills and … like, the background, like, “what these things are specifically” and “how they relate to other different things” that … computer science and statistics. I would say the biggest challenge for me was my research results not being the most …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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Thermus sediminis sp. nov., a thiosulfate-oxidizing and arsenate-reducing organism isolated from Little Hot Creek in the Long Valley Caldera, California
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Novel spore-forming species exhibiting intrinsic resistance to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and description of Tigheibacillus jepli gen. nov., sp. nov.
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Trichoderma sp. strain AM6 whole-genome guided untargeted metabolomics: Terpenoid backbone synthesis and modulation of VOCs in tea (Camellia sinensis L.)
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Triggering Morel Fruiting
… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and … from an external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … details the results of the team’s work. Morels are economically, culturally, and ecologically important fungi, widely …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not … numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and is interested in understanding … lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help researchers …
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