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FY2023 Spending Profile The JGI is funded primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral … together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, …

… other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …

… combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those … and other industries — yet there’s still so much about them we don’t know.  Unlocking the power of secondary … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … the University of Konstanz and the University of Vienna  reported recovering draft metagenome-assembled genomes for …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …

… walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …

… success of the UC Merced internship program, they left the JGI more confident and ready to tackle real-world scientific … allowed them to:  Learn new skills. Experience industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and …

The User Support Analysis group provides computational analysis for new technology development and JGI user science projects. We perform analysis for diverse …

… her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and … currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of … S et al. IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultured virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … and Koonin both noted that other research in parallel has reported similar “dramatic expansions” of the global RNA …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, reported that high quality genome references are now … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …