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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect …

… (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI … Global temperatures have been rising caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The work was …

… Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI.) The JGI team measured the levels of gene expression in the engineered plants while a …

… single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of giant viruses came primarily from sampling an … microeukaryote hosts. In doing so, they influence ecosystem-level nutrient cycling and carbon storage. For example, the …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … have discovered and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups … National Park include a wide range of temperatures, levels of acidity and geographical features, and the …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break … which degrade plant detritus. Despite the different modes of nutrition, many of these soil fungi have independently …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest piece was … power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  But for researchers who study viruses …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the low maintenance, it can produce an impressive amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA … global view of virus diversity,” though not at the higher-level classifications of virus groups (phyla.) The new …

… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … californicus (and cone snails in general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to …