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… community. Kyrpides’ project, “ Advanced analytics for uncovering virus dynamics and functional potential ," is among … which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic …
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… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uncovered a broad diversity of large and giant viruses that … out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in … Woyke noted that despite the number of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from this effort, the …
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… bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those …
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… to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department … on our website. The approved proposals start October 1, 2022. See the full list of awardees below: …
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… of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, … for the first time. “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene that way,” said Kellogg, a senior … analyses focused on 598 individuals. Schmutz and his team assembled and annotated the genomes at HudsonAlpha. Sujan …
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The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the video below, captions are available) … Q: Is it possible to use these same techniques in drug discovery and synthesis from medicinal plants? If yes, we are …
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… big the room is. A new study published online Oct. 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional … enzymes.” Leveraging Protein Families in a New Way The discovery of new protein families had started to plateau in …
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… type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of … the groundwater were nearly cleared of contamination. By 2020, the water was at contamination levels that are below … the JGI Genome Portal .) The team has also been able to discover additional microbes that contribute to the cleanup by …
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During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first internship experience, …
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Below find a list of the nine researchers accepted for 2024. Proposals are accepted year-round; the next deadline is Jan. 30, 2025. …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … 5, which contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular …
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… after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce … Turner. How extensive? Consider that the process of moving 250 people and their equipment from 4 single-story buildings to a new 4-story building 20 miles away in another city and county began more than …
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