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… will target sustainable energy solutions, focusing on lignocellulosic thermophiles and polymer degradation.  “We are …

… of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the … Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the … decomposers that can break down all of wood’s components — cellulose, hemicellulose, and the toughest molecule, lignin. …

… JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, … This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model … high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference genome built off more than a decade of work; as sequencing …

… four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. … analyses across the genomes of multiple species in a single experiment. “Effectively, you can identify conserved … could be useful for industrial biofuel production, and multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the main source of …

… has partnered with researchers around the world to map out genomes of rumen microbes. In 2018, through a JGI Community … they called the Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories … a Genome Insider podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated …