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Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics … datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The … cycles remains unexplored and uncultivated. Developing a more targeted genomic approach would allow researchers 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 … of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring together a “Viral … to all of our in-person and virtual attendees! Click here for the event photos. Keynote Speakers Katrine Whiteson , UC …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … be completed faster without extra crosses. The work wraps more than a decade of working with researchers at the U.S. …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral … remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate … with fellow interns and scientists alike. Want to learn more about their experience? Watch the short video below. …

… and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … research studies that use SIP. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy …

… inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to …