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… terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) has another … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like. …

… As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: … and a little-characterized microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their …

… better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful … they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better … biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses … they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup pitches in 2022.                     …

… 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 …

… Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In … how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these …