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… Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan … The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … with billions of sequences, and soon, with trillions. The development of efficient, automated approaches to analyze …

… so nice and helpful.”     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to talking about their work. It’s fun to be around people who are generous with their time and like nerding out about the big stuff, …

… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways to … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. …

… called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these weird little pods. …

… Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual … synthesis, metabolomics, data analysis, and new technology developments – that the JGI offers through proposal calls on …

… provides bioinformatics tools and analysis support for user science, with a focus on metagenomes. Passionate about automation and collaboration, she works to develop and …

… some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, …

… identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user … biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

… carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The … began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …