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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … methane emissions actually come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and …

… remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … which have complex, branching chains of polysaccharides called pectin and hemicellulose. While these two …

… in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by … Computing Facility (OLCF), NVIDIA, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … JGI hackathon is particularly focused on developing bioinformatics applications instead of on simulation codes. “JGI …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established … from academia, industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … ," is among the five focused on tool development. Specifically, the goal of this work is to develop tools, curated …

Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed … green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci. Nature Biotechnology 38:1203-1210. …

… 2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at the JGI …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the …