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… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North Railroad … to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team …

Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley Lab’s) core values, which guide the relationships we nurture in our workplace and seek to establish … our stakeholders. The guiding principles for participating on JGI Advisory Committees are outlined in this Code of …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … of researchers have found that there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more … sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team …

Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … and their JGI mentors are listed below, along with their project focus areas: Undergraduate Interns Andrew Lin and … to work on fungal genomics and the fact that I got to do a project involving over 12,000 fungal genomes was just …

… private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared … algorithm — a convolutional neural network, called  ResNet 34   — in order to vectorize protein sequences. Sevim …

… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest … DOE Office of Science National User Facilities in a single project. … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award …

… out. 1st floor 2nd floor 3rd and 4th Floors The JGI mural on the 3rd floor whimsically references dozens of iconic JGI contributions to advancing the frontiers of environmental and …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar inviting researchers to … of the proposals. Upon approval from JGI reviewers, the DOE project managers review the proposals. The proposer of …

DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% complete.  Described in  ISME Communications …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … from the warm, well-lit surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m … out that, without the JGI, the discoveries made in this project wouldn’t have been possible. Scientists hadn’t known …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives … in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on …