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… New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses …

… in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new genetic mapping strategy … Genomics Project led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility of Lawrence … grew well; the survivors had their DNA sequenced at the JGI as part of a 2014 Community Science Program project. The …

… and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled … large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific …

… Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots … that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier …

… has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology … for building composite materials. Before joining the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was co-founder and chief science officer … Yoshikuni is the DNA Synthesis Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal … and data  are publicly available through MycoCosm , the JGI’s web portal for fungal genome data.   The Impact This …

… fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature …

… credit for their contributions to science. A panel of DOE researchers, program managers, and intern alumni will … the Contributor Roles Taxonomy and what sorts of platforms researchers use to manage their scientific contributions, …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of … Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series …

… catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data … multiple teams and analyses. This episode, Rex Malmstrom (JGI), and Roli Wilhelm (Purdue University), share a few …