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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from … in industry or academia. It was also a great opportunity to study and learn something totally new during my Ph.D. What …

Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights … important cattle feed crop,” noted David Stelly, another study co-author at Texas A&M University. “This report …

… between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a … Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples from four sites: …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey … University and Uwe Ohler at   Humboldt Universität zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression … by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

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 … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …