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… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR gRNA design tool BOOST , which provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination and Golden Gate methods SynTrack and …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years … the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered … perennial grass in North America that has been the target of extensive natural sampling and field experiments due …

… cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …

… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … beyond the current understanding that CRISPR-Cas systems target infectious agents like viruses and plasmids. First,  Ca …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … to take advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes can be used to create compounds more …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key … This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along …

Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His … interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene clusters in …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began … are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing techniques. A 2020 Nature Biotechnology …

… you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of leaders from diverse disciplines to highlight how they are addressing the world’s most …