Search

… 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 … CheckV, assesses viral genomes, and grades their quality based on completeness. Along with expanding the viral …

… Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. … and applied novel computational and experimental sequence-based methods for elucidating the gene regulatory landscape …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty … This work was conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome … no. DE-AC02–05CH11231. C.A. received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at … oxidizing archaea and what we’re learning about their metabolism . And postdoctoral researcher Sara Calhoun, data …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically characterized at UC Berkeley and the … The results yielded several CRISPR-Cas systems, and based on several experiments conducted by Doudna’s lab at UC … of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work was supported in part by grants from the Paul Allen Frontiers …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science … study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  Dehalococcoidia . Some  … out at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was done under Contract DE-AC52-07NA2734. Funding for this …

… to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not … to tree health and carbon storage — skills that matter increasingly as the climate warms. However, these are complicated … similar functions across different forests. Primary metabolism, cell activity, and fungal development looked …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … what escapes to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide). … was able to identify enzymes in the soil and who made them. Based on data reported in the April issue of Soil Biology …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    … understanding how to engineer similar plants with different traits. One key discovery relates to conservation scores, … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms … (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program …