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… to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades … able to tell the students that the paper was accepted for publication in a reputable scientific journal. It was …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are filamentous viruses with small, …

… samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, … I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at how viruses might be influencing the methane cycling within … wetlands.” A chapter of Rambo’s research focuses on how viruses influence carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. His …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference … genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. “The Chlamy genome launched …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who … and characterize viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore … and large-scale data analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … C. Villada Project: “ Investigating metabolic network of symbiosis using genome-scale metabolic models ” Pedro …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact … from the collection. The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal genomes on the …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for … researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team … Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials …