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… online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome … the JGI’s genomic capabilities with the Foundry’s nanoscale materials research. As described in the JGI’s latest …

… 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting.  A wide array of invited speakers shared how research infrastructure – DNA … and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale is really what counts in determining our ability to …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over … species).  “This is a great example of developing a large-scale genome infrastructure with a reasonably accessible …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … understand ecosystem-wide processes. Summary geNomad is an annotation and classification framework that combines and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … hold clues to how humans could do the same on an industrial scale to produce biofuels . Since one of the challenges of …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of … Additionally, insights from the genome could help scale sustainable sugarcane conversion technologies for  …

… the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental approaches to link viruses to their … Neri et al., 2023. Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The … the virus-host boundary clearly defined using functional annotation methods, it was possible to distinguish between …

… really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis … these capabilities in other calls such as the  annual large-scale CSP call or through the  “Facilities Integrating … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … as a leader in single-cell genomic amplification at a large scale. Summary The two most common methods for collecting …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … Facility. Grigoriev and his team at the JGI contributed to annotation of the genomes, available online at  PhycoCosm …