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Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … and even animal and human (for the first time) gut and taxonomically classified into 27 distinct clades (17 of them …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … of Phage Impact on Microbial Root … Cross Species Comparison of Plant Single-cell Transcriptomes of Rice and …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain … crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities … for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale Applications … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was …