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… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the … get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of … read of the massive Lake Mendota data set, illuminating not just the highly-abundant microbes we expect to see, but …

… affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of … for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters … a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting … roots. Then, comparing with control seedlings which were not treated with fungi, they used multiple approaches to … a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a … other polyploid plants have gone extinct or are unknown),” noted Pilar Catalan of the Universidad de Zaragoza, one of …

… the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — one thing is for sure: … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing …

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … transcriptome – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific … plant species. It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San … liquid handling and bioinformatics pipelines to transition bench-scale methods into production workflows. He developed … of transcription factor binding sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and … the data and compute platforms and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and … core software engineer on the early KBase team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Mike earned his PhD in …

… Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to … are extracting links between the genetic variation and phenotypic performance,” he said. Both switchgrass and poplar … a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the … the Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., …

… viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization of community-building efforts in the field of … B.S. in Microbiology, Université Blaise Pascal, France M.S. in Data Analysis and Modeling for Life Sciences, …

… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. … to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and … engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions in various …