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… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even with little water, full sunlight and hot …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these organisms, the program investigates … The Fungal & Algal Program harnesses cutting-edge sequencing technologies and advanced genomic …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically … author Lucas Harrington was a graduate student from study senior author Jennifer Doudna’s lab, and he worked … by searching for Cas12d homologs across IMG/M’s assembled metagenomic data. It turned out that some of these were …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … changes. Summary Researchers have been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … materials, rumen microbes and their enzymes are an optimal study subject that could lead to more sustainable energy … a paper in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists …

… Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational technology … The research efforts of the group have concentrated in demonstrating the power of data science in tackling grand …