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… led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program generated many new … microbiome data. In other environments, such as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that …

… to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for … of the University of Georgia sequenced and analyzed the genome of the common bean. That work was published online … Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to darken. Called …

… periodically at different depths. In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, … on the JGI Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system . By analyzing the metagenomes, … was supported by grants from the Simons Foundation (#329108 and #721223 to EFD) and Gordon and Betty Moore …

… 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … Communications 2017, Science 2018, Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated … Science   355(6322):294-298 Paez-Espino D. et al. (2017) IMG/VR: a database of cultured and uncultured DNA Viruses …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying … of the genus Streptomyces. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 7;12(1):18909. Otani H, Mouncey NJ. RIViT-seq enables systematic … Characterization of p-hydroxycinnamate catabolism in a soil Actinobacterium. J. Bacteriol. 196, 4293-4303. Otani, …

Anomaly” first described by Stanley and Konopa in 1985, which highlights our skewed understanding of microbial … Bacteria and Archaea has steadily been widening since 2005. This gap is also reflected in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to …