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… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — … will target sustainable energy solutions, focusing on lignocellulosic thermophiles and polymer degradation.  “We are … call, as well as our smaller-scale New Investigator and Functional Genomics calls, here on our website.   See below …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … some duplicates, to sort through in order to form a single cohesive image. An approximately nine billion base … the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the Arizona Genomics Institute. The work was partly enabled by the JGI’s …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then … world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of microbes that …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature … computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … in extreme environments. They also produce a range of novel enzymes and other biomolecules that could potentially … to better understand how these hydrothermal ecosystems function in such extreme conditions. They identified 511 new …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … a Genome Insider podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated … rumen microbes gave researchers access to a collection of novel enzymes — many of which contained interesting …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to study … “The JGI was really leading the development of these approaches that are still vital to facilitate the assembly …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and … three strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day … into genes critical for roles including plant growth and cell wall development.  M. polymorpha is also among one of … Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic diversity beyond a single reference genome, which is key to understanding its …