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… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … CODCC aims to coordinate data acquisition, analysis, and visualization through a sustainable, state-of-the-art data … involving environmental samples to help uncover the phylogenetic diversity of the human gut microbiome. By …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … — suggest that they are advantageous enough to have evolved multiple times independently. The researchers also found a …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom … metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of evidence showing that zinc has allowed …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual … time (1986) 98% of the human genome was thought to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources … the FICUS program, through which researchers can access multiple DOE facilities with a single proposal. From the …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By …

Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of … metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine learning to find novel functions … academic achievements (2008) … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these … the right ingredients. Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in …