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… JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and … stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular movement, each of these lures are the bait designed to attract specific catches. A similar technique has been … the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, followed by protein in vitro expression and mass spectrometry-based …

… place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and the JGI about …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely … the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (SR, APC, SN).  …

… bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. … as a two-part complex, along with a regulatory accessory protein and multiple metallocofactors. Given the MAR system’s … Lab), and Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). Leveraging resources from …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold, …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles … which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on root-associated microbiomes. Scientists conducted a shotgun metagenomic …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s … making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, … JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet … Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed …

… to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel …

… Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also … Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently published a Nature Communications paper that builds off their early …