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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that … full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow their leafy …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of … to Antarctic valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the … Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “These data can also be used for …

… to expand its habitat range. But at what cost?  A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … have arisen multiple times from different genetic backgrounds, and that these 8X populations contain novel …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI … Nayfach and  Nikos Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . … phenomena. For example, viruses which infect the photosynthetic cyanobacteria found throughout the planet’s …

… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … student in bacterial immunologist Joe Bondy-Denomy’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco. Both are … Instead, she said, the inoviruses she studied “piggyback” off the anti-CRISPRs made by the co-infecting phages …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … primarily relied on culturing virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently … a riff, developed by others, on “Kill the Winner” — “Piggyback the Winner.” In the microbial mat, the data suggest …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In … of Science User Facility of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim to improve our understanding of fungal … used to create a sterile interspecific hybrid. In this background, the researchers then used a series of random …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. … who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …