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… at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the … process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … New Mexico State University, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) …

… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans …

… bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His … of community-building efforts in the field of viral ecogenomics. For this role, Dr. Roux can rely on more than 10 … years of expertise in the fields of virus ecology and virus genomics, where he has engaged in collaborative, …

… viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of known high … were found in diverse habitats including the air, plant rhizosphere, wastewater, and even animal and human …

… provide insights into environmental tendencies The Science The  Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within … is of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research … the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable … findings in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades …

… Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the human language—are well positioned to help enhance our understanding of life’s genomic code, advancing DOE … And since microbial genomes are simpler to model than large plant or animal genomes, they are a good starting point to …

… microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck … the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of … DNA could be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since 2018. Woyke also holds appointments as … honor,” said Axel Visel , JGI Deputy for Science Programs. “It clearly speaks to the enormous impact her … Woyke’s caliber support the JGI User community in accessing our resources and help them to push the boundaries of energy …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome … tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled capabilities for science.  Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late …

… and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More recently, these long-reads … PacBio reads (i.e., reads with very low error rate), so our pipeline performs long-reads-only assemblies and not … Depending on the project setup, we can include as part of our data analysis plan mapping of short-reads datasets …