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For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient cycles. “This is the … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green … lineages. Senior authors of the  paper published April 20, 2020 in  Nature Genetics include Jane Grimwood and Jeremy …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost … the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …