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… the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and practices that affect users and their science including technical capabilities offered, proposal …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

… fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The … history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of M. sinensis … requiring replanting. Miscanthus is especially efficient at this process thanks to a specialized kind of underground …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at … Berkeley, California.  Our location at the IGB fosters team science and collaboration with partner organizations such as …

The JGI mural on the 3rd floor of the Integrative Genomics Building whimsically references dozens of iconic JGI … genomics. Click on the images below to learn about the science depicted. The two-story JGI mural was commissioned …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal … (Berkeley Lab). All of the fungal genomes used in the study are available on the JGI fungal portal  MycoCosm . The … and the 1000 Fungal Genome projects (CSP # 662 & 1974). This research was also supported by the Laboratory of …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or …