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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! … Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group . Woyke also holds appointments as Adjunct …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by killing other cells. Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when … significant stress with a higher proportion of dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic … With the virus-host boundary clearly defined using functional annotation methods, it was possible to …

The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions … through the  Community Science Program (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and … do all the analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics proposal calls, projects can request up …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade … and research scientist Frederik Schulz in Woyke’s Single Cells group had generated and analyzed single amplified …

Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility … five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal interactions, …

Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 … toward generating “with unprecedented precision” the gene functional networks and regulatory networks of a single …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … said co-first author Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data … JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group, and Ivanova leads the Functional Annotation team. MAGs significantly expanded the …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … Merced JGI Mentors : Tanja Woyke & Jessica Jarett, Single Cells Group “My experience at JGI has exposed me to the …