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… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for … Institute. The work was partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data … virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied … to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses … to another, which can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature … Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the team generated reference …

… JGI researchers demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable … and professional expertise to support the global research community in studies of complex biological and environmental …

… Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project …