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… The practices that support agriculture – such as efficiently using dwindling water resources and restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily … soil enrichment, is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… ,  Science Focus Areas  (SFA) opportunities, and the  Office of Science Early Career Research Program .   If “BERSS” is … for BERSS support through the JGI (with the exceptions of DE-FOA-0003453 and DE-FOA-0003615 , which are both … The JGI is inviting researchers using the U.S. Culture Collection Network (USCCN) to …

… The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities … to explore complex biological and environmental systems using advanced experimental and informatic tools at no cost. … Click to view a downloadable copy of the sponsor prospectus …

… and predictive biology, modeling and biodesign — questions of relevance to DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research … While applications will be accepted that address any aspect of these mission areas, priority will be given to projects that address the areas of special emphasis that are listed in the call and leverage …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a vaccine for …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with … wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have … Science Program . The metagenomes were also processed using the JGI-developed software suite, BBTools , and …

… . The Science Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex … successfully assembled a first monoploid reference sequence using a targeted approach that focused on the gene rich part …

… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  … Kaze took on the challenge of explaining her research using the ten hundred most commonly used words in the …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA … scan for those snowflakes, or RNA virus sequences. Using this workflow, the team combed through more than 5,000 …

… JGI Mission As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide advanced genomic … and manufacturing. Genomic science lies at the heart of biology, providing the foundational knowledge to … and bioproducts: JGI user research advances understanding of biological processes that enable cost-effective energy …