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… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … and stark the biogeographic boundary is between them. The data is somewhat beautiful in that regard,” said Andy Allen, …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship 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 …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria … identified. The JGI researchers surveyed publicly available data in the JGI’s  IMG/M database , information the Probst …

Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational … over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the … and animals by combining computational genome analysis, sequence-based genetic methods, and comparative …

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For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …