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… paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields … I got to work with an enormous set of fungal genomics data. For me, it was an opportunity to adapt my existing … the door for me in the sense that I learned many different tools in bioinformatics research. Also, it consolidated my …

… challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this … I started this, uh, summer internship was working with big data, but something that I learned from this program was how … And I’m excited to take that with me, along with other tools that I can use to, um, perform computational biology.  …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and … to link experimental evidence across species. Centralized databases with large-scale transcriptome projects such as …

Vision  Lead genomic innovation for a sustainable bioeconomy. Mission  As a U.S. Department … we provide advanced genomic capabilities, large-scale data, and professional expertise to support the global …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of thousands of … of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large mixtures of …

… write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the … JGI mentor, Zhong Wang. Together, they worked to develop a tool that leveraged machine learning to help users determine …

… metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based …