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Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant … of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head … composition and metabolism, work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and infrastructure as well as ensure cohesive data standards, the JGI partners with a number of facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the DOE Energy Sciences Network (ESNet), the …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only … genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental sequences across the globe, then using these sequences to …