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New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the … to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research community. The U.S. Department of … of individual organisms or environmental DNA, and then using advanced capabilities to understand their inner …

To expand access to integrated data, improve tools and infrastructure as well as … to both expertise and infrastructure to facilitate these efforts. Particular areas of emphasis will be the development of tools and infrastructure for microbiome data science, and the development of new …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale … … About the JGI Chief Informatics Officer … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… he served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the … lines in an effort to create improved varieties for biomass production. He did his postdoctoral studies at the Carnegie … Visiting Fellowship Australia … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS … projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … and soil interact below the ground, influencing the production of microbial greenhouse gases and volatile …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial … help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms … Science Program . The metagenomes were also processed using the JGI-developed software suite, BBTools , and …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and … highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial … in interactions with plants, and as drivers of methane production, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, and …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the …

… on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective colonization. In addition, Dr. Cole is … of Cell Identity as an R package … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …