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In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to … Associate Professor Matthias Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from …

… findings in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades …   … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

Neha’s key role is to design, benchmark, and apply bioinformatics software to enable analysis and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides support for user science and projects through implementation of advanced …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … select group of bacterial strains as part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective …

… switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders …