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… sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new … Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series …

… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In … Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

… As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a coral host, a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized microbiome. …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the … utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, single-particle genomics, and metabolic engineering. …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways … how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these …