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… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … Program , the JGI enables large-scale synthesis support, sequencing, integrative -omics, and data mining, empowering … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and … Horst Simon touched upon the overheated server room and subsequent sprinkler incident at the aging Walnut Creek …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Banfield. (Banfield’s recounting of that first – and subsequent – meetings is here .) Working with the JGI, Banfield … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts … ecotypes because, historically, they have used the sequence of a “marker gene,” namely the 16S ribosomal RNA …

… Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) missions in: …

… and outreach efforts, the team aims to broaden awareness of and access to JGI public resources and the DOE mission, as well as help cultivate the next generation of genomic research users, partners, and collaborators.  Ms. … manager for over a decade. Her portfolio spans a wide range of topics beyond translating science, including crafting …

… wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what …

… uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in scale and involve multiple …