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… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal … , and PhycoCosm , serve researchers with unique areas of focus and data and computational needs. Over its 23-year …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … separate, seawater seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and bioproducts. Andrew …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of carbon fluxes …

… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been  moved … asked to “KonMari” their spaces, a decluttering method focused on keeping only items that bring joy (and are necessary …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main … Fungus Genome on MycoCosm data portal …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable bioeconomy. Researchers and farmers could improve …

… The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then … across many areas. In particular, gene editing is being used to develop drought, flooding, pest-resistant, and …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in … Research (BER) and is a contribution of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome to …

… the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. … a similar single-cell genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His …

… technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for … computing infrastructure and analysis. This way, JGI users — both primary, data-generating users, as well as secondary, data-downloading users — have …