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… Leveraging decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes … can link genetic variation more closely with gene function and find new ways to implement traits of interest … of the future. With more understanding of how these genes function, and how we can manipulate these genes, we’re …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s … Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

… microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … also highlight the corresponding need to be able to assign functions to unknown genes and improve functional annotation …

… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of … ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been sampling microbes at Lake Mendota, which borders the University of …

… Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual … dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some …

… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … has a number of applications, including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The … predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … discovered and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed … conditions. Additionally, high-temperature (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number …

… insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … into multiple interconnected layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks … included how to use deep learning to predict protein function (Héctor García Martin of Berkeley Lab’s Biological …