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… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their roles and potential impacts. The work is supported by NIH …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient cycles. “This is the … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

… those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 … Berkeley is interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on mating habits of …