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… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On … current, and only, version of Phytozome accessible as an interactive website. Since May 2019, v12 has not had any … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral … the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs a … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego …

… As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP is a summer professional … were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for …

… Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more … Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science … Aberystwyth University (UK); HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; University of Massachusetts Amherst; and, Tomsk …

… Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … metabolites are useful in a variety of fields including biotechnology, medicine and agriculture. This comprehensive … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the …

… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately … existing methodologies developed for natural languages to study genomes,” Wang explained.  And since microbial genomes … Lab’s Computing Sciences Area to develop an efficient metagenome assembler capable of assembling many terabases of …

… A. Estrada-Graf, Nicole M. Fernandez; [Row 2]: Zachary Garvin, Chandan Kumar Gautam, Gareth Gillard, Audrey Goeckner, … [Row 3]: Lisa Kappel, Gayan Kariyawasam; Ákos T. Kovács. Elina Laanto, Rose A. Marks, Daniel Mok, Elise Morrison, Jake … is Sept. 8, 2026, for inclusion in the October 2026 review. You can also find more information about the JGI’s  …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …