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… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of … Facility and Exabiome — worked to offer researchers high-powered tools for large-scale assembly and analysis.   To …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with … Check out the short videos highlighting the exciting work done by the 2020 cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns .   by: …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of … 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for … on secondary metabolites. He is also on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … than 5% of land on Earth, peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest …

… feasibility, and relevance to the DOE’s mission.  Have someone proofread your proposal to make sure the goals, experimental … the 500-gigabase cap and that you don’t request outside of the sample range that’s listed. Q: What are the pros and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with … both haplotypes, meaning it separately represents the sets of chromosomes inherited from each parent. It also has … genomic analyses.   The Impact There are 900 species of eucalyptus. The trees are fast-growing plantation crops …

… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a … also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion …

… to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … Note that beyond quantity, input quality (i.e., presence of “intact” high-molecular weight DNA) is an important … is not part of the standard analysis pipeline but can be done on request by the PI. We currently use the ‘Base …

… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach would be greatly increased by having the … metagenomic data from Crystal Geyser in Utah (work also done by the Banfield lab in collaboration with the JGI), …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … The phyllosphere, which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest … of needle-surface communities.  Part of the work was done through a summer project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … mentors, and their summer projects. Each intern also mentioned what they loved about their internship. Efosa …