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… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). Dr. Rokhsar joined the faculty of University of … and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …

… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid … requires ~ 1.5-10 ㎍. Low-input protocols are continuously improved, but currently require input in the ~ 30 – … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of modern, genomic breeding in these crops. For diploid species, sequencing programs generally focus on a genotype with two identical sets of chromosomes to … polyploid sugarcane genome now underway as part of the JGI Community Science Program (CSP), a critical factor in …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse group of plant-produced organic compounds, … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a … (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …