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… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The … microbial mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. Additionally, … the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified …

… viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the world, scientists have discovered … Nucleocytoviricota , these giant viruses boast larger genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The …

… of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team …

… -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide … multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) …

… The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to … well as staff at the other participating facilities, who consider technical feasibility and readiness to begin work.  … at JGI and the other participating facilities, is then forwarded to DOE for final approval.  Following DOE …

… large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the Joint BioEnergy … Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes … Trent Northen is the Metabolomics Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about …

… 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 Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The …

… pdf of accepted proposals from previous fiscal years for our Community Science Program (CSP) as well as the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program.  …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for …

… often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters … a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …