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… through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But 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 a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology and the economic …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … have  recently published a Nature Communications paper that builds off their early collaborations that could help crop breeders and researchers predict how …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and … shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was …

… switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating Experimentation with …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. …

… is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler … Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the …