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… “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of … monoploid reference sequence using a targeted approach that focused on the gene rich part of the genome by … breeding methods using molecular biology techniques has been hampered by the crop’s highly polyploid genome, which …

… diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short …

… Diatoms, a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living opals” because of the strange, beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes … at both UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim to find out. …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database … the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and …

… In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new genetic mapping strategy called RH-Seq can … yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , allowing this species to grow better than its closest relative S. paradoxus at high …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome … include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental … al., 2023. iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly … identified 15 core genes shared across all fungi, and found that some of these genes have moved from the mitochondria … how fungi produce and manage energy at the cellular level. Because the annotations are standardized and span the full …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking …

… American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a … diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the … Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two … contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade as Cyanobacteria, applied strategies … (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria …