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… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … workflows that allow researchers to easily analyze viral genomes. This includes (i) classifying viruses into groups …

… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for … alga  Chlamydomonas reinhardtii , one of the JGI’s Flagship genomes. She and her colleagues have generated a …

Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science … Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received his … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … enriching the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … to providing a more detailed timeline of eelgrass’s evolution, the study also shows the younger meadows in the … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the …

Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP … Cell . 25: 11, 4305-4323. 2013 Blaby et. al., Experimental evolution of a facultative thermophile from a mesophilic … Award for Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … plant’s traits and genetic diversity,” said John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of …

TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. … where transcription factors have been repurposed during evolution to control new functions,” O’Malley said. …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, where she leads a research group investigating the physiology and evolution of marine aggregates and biofilms. She credits the …