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… New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a … a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … burned soils had in common.  To complete this analysis, a multi-institutional team of researchers collected soil …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… found inside mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells. This is the largest dataset of its kind ever … annotation due to features like self-splicing introns and multiple genetic codes. Adding to the challenge, … of over 300 genomes spanning the fungal kingdom's full taxonomic breadth. Across this set, the same 15 core genes — 14 …

… National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots …

… Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional development … higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

… seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they … the right ingredients. Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome … sequence and then analyze the genomes and multi-omics datasets for algae that can be used for large-scale …

… could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear more …

… researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

… Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer … patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and …