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

JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations … were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for the …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster discussion …

Adapting the graduate research experience amidst a global pandemic   …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon … IMG Virus Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and …

Data produced and released by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) are subject to … permission for their planned work.   … For sequencing or metabolomics projects: data are subject to a  one-year … away from producing use-restricted data. JGI proposals typically include multiple projects of different types which can …

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 leverage …

… researcher who identifies and analyzes novel clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions that may impact hosts and host …