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… then co-culturing isolated viruses in eukaryotic microbial hosts. Lately, researchers have used culture-independent … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … approach for giant virus genomic discovery. In 2020, a JGI-led team used this approach to deliver novel viral …
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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the … Podar of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who spoke at the 2019 New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Meeting organized by the …
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… metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, for publicly … Hot Springs is a highly-reduced, suboxic system that may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.” …
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… uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from metagenomes is … that have integrated into the host genome, these sequences may be tainted by the presence of non-viral genes. Up to …
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… sequencing, synthesis, and metabolomics at the JGI for projects of relevance to Department of Energy (DOE) … call is for expansive projects that leverage a range of JGI capabilities, and also requires a Letter of Intent. The New Investigator call is for PIs who have never led a JGI project, and the Functional Genomics call is for …
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