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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … study subject that could lead to more sustainable energy production.  However, less than 10% of the microbes found in …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th … to living on a changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US … to living on a changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary …

Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … .  The latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew Nelson of the Boyce … by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid production. In their approved proposal, Frederick Colwell of …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …