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On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional … A:  When a proposal is submitted to the JGI, JGI scientists will go over the whole proposal for the technical … working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus … been clear. Now, to answer these questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing …

… expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of … can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy …

… mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley … genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the cellular level, scientists can better understand ecosystem-wide processes. …

… work results from a collaboration involving more than 200 scientists, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Path for Metagenomics Researchers Building upon these resources, KBase, a multi-institutional collaborative knowledge …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology … Editorial board member of Synthetic Biology (Oxford Journal) Review committee member of International Journal of …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …