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… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data. Metagenomic … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …
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… the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved. …
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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The … attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, …
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… and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … DOE works with the National Nuclear Security Administration to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and was …
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… Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences. Further analysis led to the identification of 328 “high quality” (based on … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …
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… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …
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… and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the … and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They …
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… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong … graduate student interns’ presentations on their research findings. Click here to watch a video of the celebration. …
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… of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, … expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses. Metabolic Reprogramming a … Strategy for Large and Giant Viruses Another significant finding from the study was a common strategy employed by …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … “All along the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and …
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… helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific …
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