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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into … on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence … yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to identify essential genes and …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of … it can also serve as a stepping stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which allows … species to answer questions about how they break down plant materials, which could be useful for industrial …

… of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in … at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on …

… from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab … The organisms on our planet encode these functions in their genomes, and the JGI is uniquely positioned to combine … algorithms to identify billions of protein sequences in metagenomes.  We continue to engage with our user community …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. … metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as IMG-ABC. … BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. … …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable …

Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of leaders from diverse … are addressing the world’s most pressing energy and environmental challenges.  The invited talks emphasize how the …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … could then use these proteins to recognize individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, …

… year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from reseachers who translate genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the … to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the … of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how …