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… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of researchers has been working on improving … from soil samples, researchers were able to reconstruct 79 minimally contaminated (<5%) draft genomes to >70% …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms … precise gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an … in green algae. The genome is remarkably simple with only 7,500 genes, compared to 17,000 in the model alga …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, … distinguish males and females even when plants with multi-year generation times are young and haven’t physically … Foundation of China (31590821, 31561123001, 31500502, 41871044), National Key Research and Development Program of …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not … to that of a free-living organism. First discovered in 2011, Nanohaloarchaea are part of the DPANN (Diapherotrites, … outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most DPANN lineages are predicted symbionts, the …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … that in this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene transfer …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. … under Contract Nos. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (JGI) and DE-AC05-76RL01830 (EMSL). CLS is also supported by a National …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … Glycine max on Phytozome … 3 P. pachyrhizi genomes on MycoCosm … Plant Datasets … Fungal Datasets …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant … to date. This paper  is the cover article for the April 2024 issue  of  Nature Plants .  “We wanted to better …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of Tokyo PhD, … RiPP biosyntheses. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 2023 Feb 17;50(1):kuad005. Otani H, Udwary DW, Mouncey NJ. Comparative …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and … genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at … library and natural product discovery platform. WO2021163637A1 , PCT application PCT/US2021/018050 (published 2021). …