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This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, … in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and infrastructure … specifically optimized for high-performance computing environments. … KBase is a critical partner in enabling systems …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award (2021-67019-34608) to M.J.W. FTICR-MS analyses were performed …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … in a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … to keep processes running smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new … and longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric … gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy … in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor … assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying leaves and woods into the …