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… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … in photosynthesis — in the cyanobacterium  Synechocystis . Through an array of experiments at universities and national … what is now the  Community Science Program Functional Genomics proposal call, the JGI synthesized hundreds of  …

… Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar inviting researchers to submit … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard … back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the Functional Genomics (formerly DNA Synthesis) …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … who led the research team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … their expertise in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data repositories to two projects funded through the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH)  Common …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the … DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to establish the … desirable from a biofuels production perspective. By using genomic database alignment tools, researchers searched for …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … when sunlight becomes scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, … protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …