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… bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria … and Saganbacteria were named for Carl Sagan, a renowned science popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …

… binding sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. His … DSM12444 transcription factors." Microbiology Resource Announcements 14, no. 8 (2025): e00260-25. Cassol, … Service (JAWS)." In 2025 IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience), pp. 141-149. IEEE, 2025. Baumgart, Leo …

… insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for … team. The work was a joint effort led by scientists at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and … to novel traits. M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal … potential for AI-driven studies of energy metabolism. The Science Researchers produced nearly 10,000 new annotations … standardized structure of the dataset position it as a resource for AI-driven approaches to predicting fungal …

… and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that … or together, on nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …

… about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the … originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed light on both when and how eelgrass … many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass flourishes. The plant can thrive in both frigid and tropical …

… the direction of programs and initiatives to enhance the JGI’s preeminence as a national resource. Members report to the JGI Director. …

… Find protocols provided by JGI and the JGI user community below for DNA preparation tools, high molecular-weight DNA extraction and RNA preparation.  JGI sample QC protocols can be found here . DNA Extraction …