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… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing … accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published … a crop. The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information …

… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a … oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil spill led to a draft genome of the first deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a … researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an uncultured symbiont. The single cell was …

… lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, including those for which there were previously no genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and …

I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of … I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person meetings were …

… archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes … copies of the MCP were identified in the metagenomic data, two-thirds of which could be assigned to viral lineages, and … certain conditions, which then helps the virus to replicate faster and produce more progeny. This can provide short- and …

… has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal years is eligible for election to the UEC. … Members serve three-year terms and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. In September, the JGI launched a …