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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity. As pioneers of this field, the JGI has leveraged metagenomics to …

… have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … can be used to create compounds more efficiently than one strain could on its own.  In work published in  …

… other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these … traits that could transfer from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species …

The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company … from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a … data more findable and easier to download is a complex one, so our joint team started small, in the tradition of …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … it to usable organic compounds. However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert … genomes. One of these systems, the CRISPR-Cas9 system, is a powerful tool in gene editing, but many other systems exist. …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … there.  A  Communications Biology article highlights how one microalga collected from water on the ice surface … lives in a range of habitats — from brine pockets and melt pools, and within the water column. They are also the …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s … Copies are available online – click here to go download one from the archive of JGI Progress Reports. Print copies …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit …

The JGI has a strong interest in seeing that the data produced by the facility result in scientific … (see Auspice Statement below) for the generation of sequence or metabolomic data, DNA synthesized, and any … of data produced at the facility, provided this is done in a timely fashion. The publications resulting from …

UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by … and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … call included algal genomics as a focus area, and one of the accepted proposals came from Chris Bowler of …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to … campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us that we …