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… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary . Over the next few … science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Over the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and wet lab experiments, …

… is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects … metabolic engineering and biocatalyst design will target sustainable energy solutions, focusing on lignocellulosic … nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry.  You can learn more about this call, as well as our smaller-scale New …

… to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to predict the metabolic strategies applied by a common …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in Cell , a team led by researchers at Tel Aviv … the uncovered viral diversity. “Although the technical challenges of data analysis at this scale are formidable.” …

… bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … pairs to generate a matrix of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, …

… the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens … of life, they tracked the evolution of 5mC pathways across 528 species. The researchers found that unlike most flowering … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office …

… some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The meeting was a hybrid event, with … of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, who discussed the exciting progress in gene editing made possible by … lot of unlocked questions to answer,” she said. Learn more about Doudna and her latest work at the  Innovative Genomics …

… Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of … the world’s most pressing energy and environmental challenges.  The invited talks emphasize how the research …

… from half of the United States. As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … is assembled into sequences of 5.5 million basepair (bp) in length, while the previous version had an average of 25,000 …

… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary strategies that helped plants thrive under challenging conditions could inform the development of resilient … three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research …