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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with … the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

… The Science The  Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes … developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to … The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome … the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by …

… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of … The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential …

… made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. … is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI … individual genes, whole pathways, genome-editing tools, and reporters.” JGI-developed genetic engineering technique …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled … and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …