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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo Yoshikuni , who …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The … “Although single-celled, photosynthetic organisms can form massive blooms in the ocean that can stretch over thousands … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … focus on Microbiome Research with an emphasis on Microbiome Data Science. His group is developing novel methods for …

… user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … Foundation (NSF). In recognition of the increasingly collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of DOE mission … research exploiting a diversity of capabilities to generate datasets beyond what each facility could generate …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … isolates from the collection. The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … model, researchers also generated the first transcriptomic dataset of sexual reproduction in early fungi and discovered … Rhizopus microsporus (Rm) and Burkholderia endobacteria, a collaborative effort led by researchers at Cornell …

… Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) collaborative science initiative between the JGI and EMSL.  …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove … Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The … appear in discussions of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy or biofuels. … Innovation, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and …