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… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete … the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … with the JGI. Working together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … Lab) were on the scene collecting samples. Terry Hazen, a former Berkeley Lab environmental biologist and current … To find an explanation, his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics … Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, who discussed the … these genes can change position within a genome — in plants to see how they impact gene and genome evolution. TEs …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like …