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… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … genome, these sequences may be tainted by the presence of non-viral genes. Up to this point, there has been a lack of …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  Sorghum …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of …

Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of …