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… there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh … researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which … Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has … payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining CRAGE with CRISPR provides researchers with a powerful addition to …

… 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are … production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of … ) in  Nature Biotechnology.  The work also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild …

The JGI welcomes three new members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland … that certain data sharing policies fail to represent the needs of large parts of the user community. “Large sections … exist on [the JGI data portal] IMG or how to deal with situations in which they inadvertently analyzed …

… on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large vertebrate genomes.  For the past 13 years, Mr. …

… world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus  Phakopsora pachyrhizi … proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI …

… learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of … developed an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, … class of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal …

… was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint appointment with … Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently … a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the genomes of their ancestors. The method …

Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing approach to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of …