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The ancient Salicoid genome duplication event: A platform for reconstruction of de Novo gene evolution in Populus trichocarpa
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Enhancing Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase Activity on Substrates with 3′ Terminal Structures for Enzymatic De Novo DNA Synthesis
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Do Genetic Drift and Gene Flow Affect the Geographic Distribution of Female Plants in Gynodioecious Lobelia siphilitica?
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iPHoP: A Matchmaker for Phages and their Hosts
…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley …
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Engineering a Synthetic Escherichia coli Coculture for Compartmentalized de novo Biosynthesis of Isobutyl Butyrate from Mixed Sugars
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with …
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Matt Blow
Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support … function in bacteria. Since 2016, he has been the lead of the User Support Analysis group. The group performs …
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Synthetic Biology Lab
The Synthetic Biology lab is divided into a DNA synthesis production group and a synthetic … as user facility that aims to provide access to state-of-the-art DNA synthesis and assembly technologies to the broader community.  We focus our efforts on integrating database mining and sequence design with scaling …
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Viral Genomics Group
… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics … group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host …
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Duplications and losses of genes encoding known elements of the stress defence system of the Aspergilli contribute to the evolution of these filamentous fungi but do not directly influence their environmental stress tolerance
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New Research Sheds Light on Diversity in the Deep Sea
Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley … the communities studied. The datasets are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) …
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Toasting to the 2020 JGI-UC Merced Summer Internship Program
On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by …
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