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An Enzyme Family that Helped Shape Nitrogen Metabolism on Our Planet
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to … for computational analysis of the AT enzyme family, the JGI provided DNA synthesis capabilities to enable functional …
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Identification of candidate genes in Arabidopsis and Populus cell wall biosynthesis using text-mining, co-expression network analysis and comparative genomics
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In marine Bacteroidetes the bulk of glycan degradation during algae blooms is mediated by few clades using a restricted set of genes
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Decomposing a San Francisco estuary microbiome using long-read metagenomics reveals species- and strain-level dominance from picoeukaryotes to viruses
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
… to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of … how soil ecosystems function. He was one of the eight JGI researchers on the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list, …
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The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus converts organic matter in plant litter using a trimmed brown‐rot mechanism involving Fenton chemistry
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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered that the candidate bioenergy …
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Quantitative trait loci for cell wall composition traits measured using near-infrared spectroscopy in the model C4 perennial grass Panicum hallii
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Examining the Relationship Between the Testate Amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) and its Associated Intracellular Microalgae Using Molecular and Microscopic Methods
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Shared Genomic Regions Between Derivatives of a Large Segregating Population of Maize Identified Using Bulked Segregant Analysis Sequencing and Traditional Linkage Analysis
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An Automated Tool for Assessing Virus Data Quality
… uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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Daniel Udwary
Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests … gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time as a faculty member at the University of … HPC consultant with NERSC. Dr. Udwary co-hosts JGI’s "Natural Prodcast" podcast, a "fireside chat"-style …
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