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… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of … plants to transition to terrestrial life.  These led to highly detailed assemblies for three strains of  Zygnema …

…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 … degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … on large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging … In 2022, she joined LBNL to spearhead the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking down potential biomass sources in … CRISPR-Cas9 systems snip DNA. This could eventually lead to applications allowing for genome editing in RNA, rather than …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex … sex chromosome. Palindromes are large inverted repeats with highly similar sequences so that their sequences read the …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, … Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, with some artistic …

Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating … submitting successful proposals: Collaborate With a U.S. DOE User Facility: Learn About Available Expertise and …

Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented by Igor …