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Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial …

… subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … in the samples that corresponded to eight separate groups of viruses. To visualize one particular viral genome in …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The … of new viruses and plasmids quickly, even in massive datasets. geNomad employs two distinct approaches to identify …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Research (BER) program to enable scientific discovery in support of the DOE mission. Fermentative metabolism occurs in … Fermentation Explorer ( GitHub ) with a series of large datasets. One test was to predict traits of more than 400 …

… that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a … called terpenoids, which have a structure belonging to a group of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …

… female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … two species and, perhaps, more generally. … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program …

… moved to a lower-salinity environment with how a control group responded when moved to an environment of comparable … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. … P. psychrophila on PhycoCosm … Datasets …

… of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene … lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the development of new applications utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, …