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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in Cell , a team led by … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for … EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium series. The online seminars foster discussion on how to best capture and …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the … the 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … the JGI contributed to annotation of the genomes, available online at  PhycoCosm (for the alga genome) and  MycoCosm …

Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the …

Tomas uses traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in … characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene censuses.  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh ,  Metagenome Program lead, shone a spotlight on  ammonia …

… to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …