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Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify … viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets …

The Joint Genome Institute's DNA Synthesis Platform capabilities support researchers exploring how to … assessments. This is done by synthesizing genes, pathways, and whole chromosomes for bioenergy, nutrient cycling and … assembly and analysis Overview of synthesis products The JGI DNA Synthesis platform enables users to validate …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase … (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the …

… 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to … Nayfach A, et al. 2021. A genomic catalogue of Earth’s microbiomes. Biotechnol . doi: …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a … roles to genes. Sarah:  How many plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus … Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into many more samples and refined our methodology,” …

The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set …

SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of … process. The isotope labeling incubations can take hours to months, followed by weeks of tricky, laborious lab work to … of harnessing large datasets, JGI researchers and users are looking for ways of making these experiments more repeatable …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral … a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental … in environmental management, contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can …