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… to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the …
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… book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses … every virus carries, and who is their likely host. We’ve made all of that information fully free and openly available …
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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon … feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. … Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms …
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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon … feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. … Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms …
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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 great science that will help solve energy … challenges. The Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the …
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… archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global … For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and … suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature …
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… and Agenda Coming Soon! Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, … diversity cataloged and taxonomically classified to date. Under the “sequence to function’ umbrella, this symposium …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to …
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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 great science that will help solve energy … of Stanley Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, when the phone rang. On the line was Jillian Banfield, a …
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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 … biomass sources in ways we are only just beginning to understand. A better understanding of rumen and the microbes … “It has become a tool widely used,” Leahy told JGI recently when we caught up with her. “… We are very happy that the …
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… research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University … student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). During his eight …
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JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the … in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one … up as moving boxes are filled and stacked for transport. When considering how to do similarly large moves at the main …
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