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Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … gardens and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing techniques to customize … plant’s traits and genetic diversity,” said John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … and biofuels . This first report of their work, supported through the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program at the …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … our agricultural systems could become more sustainable through applications of microbiome science; our water …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) .  Through …

From left to right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin … is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel … PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community …

Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, … group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host dynamics in …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel … PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms organized into multiple interconnected …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … contributed toward filling gaps on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Hacquard’s group …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … mark, these algae showed significant signs of recovery through increased nutrient uptake and decreased cell death.  …