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A new reference genome for Sorghum bicolor reveals high levels of sequence similarity between sweet and grain genotypes: implications for the genetics of sugar metabolism
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Complete genome sequence of Jiangella gansuensis strain YIM 002T (DSM 44835T), the type species of the genus Jiangella and source of new antibiotic compounds
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Toasting to the 2020 JGI-UC Merced Summer Internship Program
… 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 …
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Two new high-resolution crystal structures of carboxysome pentamer proteins reveal high structural conservation of CcmL orthologs among distantly related cyanobacterial species
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Duplications and losses of genes encoding known elements of the stress defence system of the Aspergilli contribute to the evolution of these filamentous fungi but do not directly influence their environmental stress tolerance
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The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 1: Many, Many Mers
… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …
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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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Transcriptomic data sets for Novosphingobium aromaticivorans DSM12444 and a ΔSARO_RS14285 mutant grown in the presence of glucose and either protocatechuic, vanillic, syringic, or 4-coumaric acid
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Complete genome sequence of Methanoculleus marisnigri Romesser et al. 1981 type strain JR1
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Yasuo Yoshikuni
… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission … synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology …
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Comparing polysaccharide decomposition between the type strains Gramella echinicola KMM 6050T (DSM 19838T) and Gramella portivictoriae UST040801-001T (DSM 23547T), and emended description of Gramella echinicola Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005 emend. Shahina et
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DAS Tool for Genome Reconstruction from Metagenomes
… genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) , … been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this approach would be greatly increased by having the ability to reconstruct complete genomes of …
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