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… bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these … metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, scientists have … methanogens were, but they were discovered by genome sequencing, which is a much less biased approach to studying …

… dominates these polar environments greatly contributes to our larger understanding of carbon and other nutrient cycles … over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows … (Berkeley Lab). The work was enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program. For most months each year, Ace …

When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they uncovered a … pools, followed by whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial … enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught several microbes from known …

… the big stuff, well, the little stuff! People hold office hours and you can pop in and ask them questions about all … by passionate scientists working on interdisciplinary projects. I feel inspired to pursue a career in STEM. … Fungal Program “Working at the JGI has reinforced my plans to pursue a STEM career. I can see myself working at a …

… of Education (AICE) Biology class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an … DNeasy PowerSoil Kits and sent the samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed …

Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , … which provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination and Golden Gate …

Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding how the interactions … in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data repositories to two … with us; and, Make virome data available to the research community. Kyrpides’ project, “ Advanced analytics for …