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… to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. … hearts, we’re featuring some scintillating genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the … 40 percent of the proposals were submitted by researchers who had not been a primary investigator on any proposals previously accepted through JGI’s …

Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their … ” Anna Kucherova : “I got to learn about skills and tools that I’d never done before from my mentors. Also, …

Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the … thousand Actinobacteria strains and then use computational tools to analyze biosynthetic gene clusters and then develop …

… the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for … genome and transcriptome data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In … an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  …

… is the ultimate achievement. To get to this point requires rigorous research, written skill, above all else, … and synthetic biology fields. In a living cell, triplets of nucleotides, or codons, dictate which amino acids are … predictor of gene expression levels using machine learning tools. “This was very exciting to see how Rhondene not only …

… 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 … Advances in sequencing technologies and computational tools have uncovered a diversity of viruses that infect not …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric … is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, …