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The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. … Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. …

… are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, … suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. CheckV identified a …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … areas of focus and data and computational needs. Over its 23-year history, JGI has produced more than 13 petabytes of … and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of …

Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … or early November, at which time they will receive certificates. With Olmstead and Lawrence back on campus, Visel …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … production in other algae that may be more viable for sustainable biofuel production. The JGI published a partial … reopened, Merchant would go on to work on research that identified signaling pathways in Chlamydomonas.   So, Merchant …

… may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a vital source of protein in many … a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, … trait. Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to …

… the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … namely the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene, to mark or identify microbial species. All SAR324 have very closely related …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable … Berkeley aims to redesign and engineer algae by identifying the algal regulators that could boost lipid …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … ecosystems function in such extreme conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and … funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 …