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Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her … Palaniappan K, Ratner A, Chu K, Ritter SJ, Reddy TBK, Mukherjee S et al. IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of … I-MA et al. IMG/PR: a database of plasmids from genomes and metagenomes with rich annotations and metadata. Nucleic …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … Lab. Commenting on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration … workshops. Of common interest is the method development to study active sites or single cells in their functional …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer … his student’s contributions as reviewing close to 3,800 metagenomes to verify geographic locations and assign …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of … how to sharpen the CRISPR-Cas9 tool for a non-conventional eukaryotic host — an approach, the team says, that could be …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … categories: Catalog the human virome; Develop tools to study the human virome; Explore how the human virome … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , …

… complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful … attempt to put them back into the original genomes. These metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) that came from shotgun … together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at least 80% complete when studied …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  Proceedings of the …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … unique array of chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class …

Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his … Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he … Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The … that control transcription. Summary Transcription in eukaryotes is handled by three distinct RNA polymerases; in … given sigma factor are inferred. Prior to this most recent study, only 12 sigma factors and 200 genes (or 209 sigma …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were … most of the known RNA viruses have been associated with eukaryotes. Along with the expansion of bacteria-associated …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for …