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… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director … Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. …

… data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … their genetic diversity. They hold economic value as both biofuel feedstock and their role in carbon sequestration. … Metabolomics allowed them to then examine the chemicals and small molecules produced by the trees and associated …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation … cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The …

… focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began … distachyon pan-genome correlates with population structure. Nature Communications 8, 1. Goodstein et al., …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … authors, lies in their finding that each lichen partner can sexually reproduce: genetic recombination during sex could …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … in the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. …