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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … This shows that archaea may use CRISPR systems to protect against other, parasitic archaea. However, when  Ca . …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … One , engineering different gene deletions in four gammaproteobacterial species, and then removing the editing …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The … DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The … But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … For this project, RNA sequencing was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy at EMSL. …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … These enzymes are crucial for creating nucleic acids and proteins, as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with insight …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek … the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to … from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab … sugarcane genome sequence. The JGI  partnered  with synchrotron user facilities to define the structure and function …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … in 2011, Nanohaloarchaea are part of the DPANN (Diapherotrites, Parvarchaeota, Aenigmarchaeota, Nanoarchaeota, and …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While large protein databases, like UniProt, exist, are not specific …