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From left to right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, … our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel research projects — …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … led to a draft genome of the first deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a single cell. Several years later, the … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute … hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …