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Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into … Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea … the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. … more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline … by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC … Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … the level of photosynthesis in a model green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We’re using an attentive …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In …

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 … further confirmed by desire to pursue a STEM career, specifically in a government lab. My favorite thing is the …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … Association mapping led the team to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local … me a truck and I drove all over Texas with a shovel,” recalled study co-author David Lowry, who started as a …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They … , Susannah Tringe , and Tanja Woyke  were part of a “big data” mining effort reported in  Nature Biotechnology that …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen … from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? … to get credit for their scientific contributions through data citations, authorship, and presenter opportunities. …