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… Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic … for elucidating the gene regulatory landscape of vertebrate genomes, which led to the discovery of thousands of genetic … Axel Visel is the JGI's Deputy for Science Programs. Click to learn more about our seven science …

… can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … (2017YFC0505203, 2016YFD0600101), and the National Key Project for Basic Research (2012CB114504). The work …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive … a host genome (Rm ATCC 52813) as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes project. As reported in the November 29, 2017 issue of … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a … holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, and growth in poor soils. In addition to … of Energy, the Gates Foundation, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the United States Agency …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake … the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers … how such inter-Facility collaborations through the Genomes to Structure and Function focus area of the JGI’s … way from sequencing to functional characterization, and a project like this — an exciting project — we were able to …

… technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as … . Susan Wessler , UC Riverside Shaping up conservative genomes Keynote Talk Title: Transposable Element-Mediated … to know at the beginning of my career, with my postdoctoral project beginning with her strains,” Wessler explained. “She …

… Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple … of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn … The JGI sequenced half of the 4,500 BACs sequenced for this project that were colinear to the gene-rich part of sorghum …

… Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …