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… on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area … statewide. In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and … podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome … that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a …

… microbial mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. Additionally, … high-temperature (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number of biotechnological … with insights into the evolution of life on Earth. For decades, longtime JGI collaborator Bill Inskeep of …

… of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for the final presentations to date.  This summer internship … and presentation skills.  “This program is so important for JGI, engaging with the UC Merced students is a fantastic …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the University of California, Riverside and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… the plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering group lead, the … or fungi ( MycoCosm ). “We have made a concerted effort to create a common set of ‘baseline metadata’ across …

… compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a … (SMC) has launched as an interactive public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs … biosynthetic gene clusters and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( …

… the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his … as a computational biologist. My primary future goal is to form a startup.” …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but … two vectors,” said Sevim.  While there are alignment-free methods for nucleotide searches, such as  Mash and  …