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… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities … user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) through the National Science Foundation (NSF). In …

… Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial … be the foundation upon which researchers can develop high-throughput and high-resolution studies of interactions …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of … JGI’s operations). At the JGI, that translated to sorting through the stuff accumulated in offices, labs, lockers, and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, well-lit … This research was supported by grants from the Simons Foundation …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program … been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users requiring multiple omics methods to examine microbial chemical production. The Science Soil … chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … available on the fungal portal MycoCosm, many sequenced through the JGI 1000 Fungal Genomes Project.       Francis … Laccaria bicolor on MycoCosm … Laccaria bicolor has a symbiotic relationship with poplar …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically … guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from … complex compounds called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … discovery is reconstructing metagenome-assembled genomes through metagenomic binning. So far, this has been the most …

… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately … genome discoveries. Unlocking the intricate details of life’s genetic blueprint has long been a significant … and microbial life adapted to extreme conditions studied through the Antarctic Lake project. The model’s training …