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Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and …

… internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in …

Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process … measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil … episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the …

Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil … episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

… sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In … large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a coral host, a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized microbiome. …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …