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… biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In …

… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing … some duplicates, to sort through in order to form a single cohesive image. An approximately nine billion base … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was … of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one … our near- and long-term goals. And, by the way, as far as sequencing goes, the JGI’s next petabase will likely be …

Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was …

… only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, … of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … replicating a whole community is impossible.  Metagenomic sequencing allows researchers to study the entire genetic …