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… a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, researchers have been …

… Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is … The study was funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …

… The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists … This study was supported by a PhD scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to L.Y. (number 201704910807), by a fellowship to M.K. in the Helmholtz School for Marine Data Science (grant …

… MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI … Nayfach and  Nikos Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … written solely by scientists affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to … As such, JGI is involved in a broad variety of genomics projects that relate to energy and the environment.” she …

… and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of cloning and expressing a …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara  recently published a paper in  Nature … The authors acknowledge their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …