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Integrative genomic mining for enzyme function to enable engineering of a non-natural biosynthetic pathway
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The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus‐level sequencing project
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A plant host, Nicotiana benthamiana, enables the production and study of fungal lignin-degrading enzymes
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Metabolic model predictions enable targeted microbiome manipulation through precision prebiotics.
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics … and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … The combination of multiple microscopy and omics techniques enabled the team to closely study the nature of the …
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Marine Synechococcus isolates representing globally abundant genomic lineages demonstrate a unique evolutionary path of genome reduction without a decrease in GC content
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Effects of Polar Light Cycle on Microbial Food Web
… roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The work was enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program. For most …
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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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Improved genome assembly and evidence-based global gene model set for the chordate Ciona intestinalis: new insight into intron and operon populations
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High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Bradyrhizobium sp. Th.b2, a microsymbiont of Amphicarpaea bracteata collected in Johnson City, New York
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New Microviridae isolated from Sulfitobacter reveals two cosmopolitan subfamilies of single-stranded DNA phages infecting marine and terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria
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Kjiersten Fagnan
Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, … postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division.. As a postdoc, her research focused on … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in …
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