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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s … the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome … program is to: Build curiosity and illustrate the value of comparative genomic analysis Expose students to peer review …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence … Program (CSP) focuses on a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that …

… small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, … and environments, including natural and agricultural soils, human- and animal-host associated, and ocean and other … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

… from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks … currently works to support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance … with the JGI’s research portfolio, he admitted that boiling that portfolio’s impact down into a succinct message …

… Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every … litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying …

… On February 8, 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Environmental Molecular … are due March 7, 2024. The FICUS call allows researchers to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization … from the JGI and EMSL in one proposed research project. In the same proposal, researchers can also request …