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This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last … the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been …

Genomics Building (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 … users who made use of our data. We completed 39,870 projects in FY24 We generated 871 Terabases of sequence We …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … viruses,” said Simon Roux , a JGI scientist and one of the project co-leads. “But same as DNA viruses, RNA viruses …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified … to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team …

… findings could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …