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The central mission of the JGI’s Genomic Technologies department is   ensuring users … to cutting-edge capabilities to help advance their science by generating data in three overarching categories: … with  Science Programs and  Operations enable the JGI to focus on expanding molecular capabilities and …

… , both faculty investigators at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. “The goal has been for all this new … with the JGI Plant Annotation pipeline, which provides high quality comparisons of these genomes within themselves and … field, growers can easily distinguish the cotton species by traits such as flower color, plant height, or fiber …

… and floods. The planet’s resources are being stretched by a growing human population and increasing demand for agricultural products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is … 400 root and leaf samples and helped analyze the sequencing datasets. The results from the first year showed that 10,727 …

… soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Institute is a DOE Bioenergy Research Center managed by Berkeley Lab. For more information, please visit  …

Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to … students have contributed to the research of numerous JGI scientists. Interns say their experiences allowed them …

… to medicine, the environment, and human health. As the JGI acts on its goals in — and builds out its capabilities for — secondary metabolism research, “Natural Prodcast” … field about current and future developments, and how the JGI can be part of that space.   …

… approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through … Clum, A. et al. (2021)  DOE JGI metagenome workflow …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications … to define the current shape of the microbial tree of life by filling in genomic information for thousands of … have been sequenced from curated DSMZ isolates, for which quality DNA has been provided by the team. These strains …

… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … proposal call is open year-round, but proposals submitted by July 30 will be included in the next review. “So webinars … will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the full library. …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement … difficult. Our Plant Gene Atlas resource addresses that by providing standardized experimental conditions, tissue … is an updateable resource. To demonstrate that, we included datasets from two species, one of which is sweet sorghum Rio …

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