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… “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the June …

… portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using 5,000 images of crystalized … in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts suggest the viral versions of the …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley … To find an explanation, his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array …

… 14 of Natural Prodcast . There’s been a lot going on, so I took a little break, but I’m hoping that from here I can get back to a regular schedule. I’m going to kick things off today with my interview with the Director … Our guest on this episode is Dr. Nigel Mouncey , JGI’s Director, and also lead of the JGI’s Secondary Metabolites …

… University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and …

… Genome Assembly, QA/QC, and User Support Analysis teams. Together, these teams provide analysis support and R&D for … editing and cancer genetics. Dr. Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is … paper describing the genomes of the five major cotton lineages. Grimwood was also part of the JGI team that …

… changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any … approach to infecting and metabolically reprogramming the bacterial host, which was transformed into two very …

… and host cell take-over by viruses, and attempts to evaluate ecosystem-level impacts of viral infections. The … microbiome processes is still limited. One key challenge is to complement diversity surveys ( Who is there? ) with … and how? ). The JGI Viral Genomics group attempts to address this question in natural soil ecosystems by …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds … BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and archaeal genome and contig sources.  The …

… Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are … list, and those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor … She also co-organized the NeLLi 2021 Symposium: From New Lineages of Life to New Functions. The seminars focus on …

… best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and … and other applications, and breeders aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing … User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …