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… results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ … extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of …

… energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was … a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome sequence of a …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in … archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the …

… included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … a team of researchers sought to disrupt every gene in the genome with CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s … a pool of sgRNA sequences: six for every gene in the genome. The JGI  DNA Synthesis Science team synthesized …