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2025 Progress Report
… to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program, the Joint Genome Institute … research community in studies of complex biological and environmental systems. We optimize our service to the …
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A chromosome‐scale reference genome of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) provides insights into disease resistance, cold tolerance and genome evolution in Citrus
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Preferential retention of genes from one parental genome after polyploidy illustrates the nature and scope of the genomic conflicts induced by hybridization
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Refined annotation and assembly of the Tetrahymena thermophila genome sequence through EST analysis, comparative genomic hybridization, and targeted gap closure
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JGI Part of Berkeley Lab Team Awarded Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences
… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) have been recognized for … assembler that supports “an unprecedented assembly of environmental microbiomes.” JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer  …
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
… biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …
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Expanding Virophage Diversity
… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … an early version of the paper at the 2018 Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium. The work also used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) , which …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… hardwood tree in the western United States, making it an energy feedstock of particular interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). By better understanding how poplar responds to … efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary To interrogate the …
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Dispatches From JGI Interns
… interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …
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The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes
… plants, including agricultural staples and candidate bioenergy feedstock crops, are recent polyploids. Crop breeders … Spain’s Universidad de Zaragoza and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … said John Vogel, head of the Plant Functional Genomics program at the JGI and a senior author on the …
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Tanja Woyke Awarded van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics
… around the planet–through techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , … Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group …
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Refining the Process of Identifying Algae Biotechnology Candidates
… pipeline. The Impact Part of the Department of Energy’s work toward developing a clean energy economy is developing alternative sustainable fuel sources. Developing candidate bioenergy feedstocks that can thrive in saltwater mitigates … This research was supported by the Bioenergy Technology Office (BETO) within the Department of …
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