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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant … The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription … sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal …

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days … Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in many … trait. Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the … the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically … different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable …