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… JGI researchers demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable … genomic innovation to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user …

… Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. But at what … of genomic, quantitative genetic, landscape, and niche modeling approaches, we contrasted the diversity of 4X and … More genome copies in switchgrass leads to increased climate flexibility …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … at exactly what happens at all levels and developing models for cellular properties, communities and ecosystems.” …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 …

… from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny word. The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with … samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but difficult to assemble and interpret. … costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance between two …

… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On August 6, 2021,  version 12 of Phytozome … the current, and only, version of Phytozome accessible as an interactive website. Since May 2019, v12 has not had … of 250 plant genomes and has been under active development for over 5 years, provides users with the genome browsers, …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most species are diploids and have … sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with more than 80 percent found to be … This work was supported by the International Consortium for Sugarcane …

… long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … call. Q&A from the Webinar: Q(uestion): Can I apply as a postdoc, or do I need a faculty member as PI? A(nswer: …

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … on a few species like Arabidopsis or rice as homology models for computational function predictions and also due …