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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … said Crysten Blaby-Haas, a research scientist at the JGI and Molecular Foundry, and the study’s senior author. In … and longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts …
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Learning to Look
Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an … viruses,” said the study’s lead author Simon Roux, a JGI research scientist in the  Environmental Genomics group …
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Here, There and Everywhere: Large and Giant Viruses Abound Globally
JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in …
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Improved genome assembly and evidence-based global gene model set for the chordate Ciona intestinalis: new insight into intron and operon populations
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High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Bradyrhizobium sp. Th.b2, a microsymbiont of Amphicarpaea bracteata collected in Johnson City, New York
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New Microviridae isolated from Sulfitobacter reveals two cosmopolitan subfamilies of single-stranded DNA phages infecting marine and terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria
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Gut Fungi: Unexpected Source of Novel Chemicals
… californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … National Laboratory. The team’s research at both the JGI and EMSL was enabled by the Facilities Integrating …
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Expanding Virophage Diversity
… the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the … more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) … virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 …
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SPRUCE-ing Up Science
A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, Lawrence is now a … When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand …
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Applying Viral Genomics Expertise to Understanding the Human Virome
JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub … impact the regulation of global nutrient cycles. The JGI’s latest strategic plan (download a copy  here ) … metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic …
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Polar Phytoplankton Need Zinc to Cope with the Cold
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a …
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Climate Change Threatens Base of Polar Oceans’ Bountiful Food Webs
… are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … their RNA transcripts. All sequencing was done through the JGI Community Science Program . Using an ecology metric …
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