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The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production workflow, and is responsible for the annotation and analysis of (meta)genomic, … state-of-the-art data processing and analysis pipelines for the interpretation of microbiome omics data Developing …

Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to … students have contributed to the research of numerous JGI scientists. Interns say their experiences allowed them …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature … small genomes, short life cycles and can be easily transformed, traits that make them easy to work with …

… to medicine, the environment, and human health. As the JGI acts on its goals in — and builds out its capabilities for — secondary metabolism research, “Natural Prodcast” … field about current and future developments, and how the JGI can be part of that space.   …

… , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a reference genome for  P. pachyrhizi to develop better strategies to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with … Roux and Frederik Schulz, Structure Prediction to Annotate Novel Viruses: the Case of Polintoviruses Josue Duque and …

… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … beneficial findings, like antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, and novel enzymes that function at low temperature.” said Katrin …

… that facilitate the shift from uncovering microbial novelties to deciphering metabolic and functional … novel microbial lineages, leading to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional … of these new lineages will provide new cornerstones for research in the areas of bioenergy and biomedicine, as …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database … metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and search through …

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