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… Platform capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence into functional assessments. This is done by … chromosomes for bioenergy, nutrient cycling and bioproduct applications.  The team has three subgroups: Synthetic … assembly and analysis Overview of biodesign products The JGI Biodesign platform enables users to validate hypotheses …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral … Microbiome Data Collaborative where she leads infrastructure and user-centered design efforts. Dr. Fagnan was on … Kjiersten Fagnan is the JGI's Chief Informatics Officer. Click to learn more about …

… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging questions existing in biology. He holds joint appointments as a … at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Pennacchio received his Ph.D in 1998 from …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years … and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and adapt to changing environments — ultimately … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model … As the planet has changed, so have plants. Curious about their ability to adapt to changing environments, scientists … to their environments, two gene families—peroxidases and nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeats (NLRs) —stood out for …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. … and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants, such as candidate  bioenergy feedstock crops, to acquire … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been … Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award … relationships and leading to the discovery of features such as a new genetic code. More recently reported in Nature …

… The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) spotlighted the metabolomic analysis … are strongly sorbed to the clays. Sandy soils are much more likely to work well for metabolomics.  Q:  What … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 … The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop …

… (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …