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… 16, which contains about 3% of the human genome. They wanted to learn about the genes implicated in the development … was being waged. In the JGI@25 video below, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next …

… The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

… new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained … the brown rot Serpula lacrymans towards breaking down plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels … America – against a third fungal Serpula species, S. himantioides from Europe, that was sequenced and analyzed by …

… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do … the predator-prey dynamics in these mats helps constrain models that estimate biogeochemical fluxes. Summary Previous …

… of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for the final presentations to date.  This summer internship … and presentation skills.  “This program is so important for JGI, engaging with the UC Merced students is a fantastic component of our work,” said Nigel Mouncey, JGI …

… The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place … collaborative science opportunities. Learn how to apply for a project with the JGI Community Science Program, and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant genomics research. Click here to download a list of …

… 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals … investigating the repeated evolution of three traits relevant to DOE interests: photosynthetic transitions, … only a fraction have been sequenced.  Adriana Lopes dos Santos from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University aims …

… of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish in … conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some of which have salinities 10 times that … cycles, and possibly cold-temperature enzymes for biotechnological use. Summary Conditions such as extreme …

… the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way …

… in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by … JGI hackathon is particularly focused on developing bioinformatics applications instead of on simulation codes. “JGI … hosted at the Hackathon, with 1-2 mentors per team. Participants will be expected to have some experience with OpenACC …

… dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has looked for DGRs in a broad range of publicly available datasets. … of DGRs is to use them to create collections of protein variants, produced in engineered viruses or microbial cells. …

… Their work showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent … approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … are often less diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage …