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Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI … helpfulness and patience of my JGI PIs, having lots of data to play around with.” …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … The reference genome of R570 is available on the JGI plant data portal,  Phytozome .   … The work (proposal: …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … annotated algal genome is available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm data portal.) This research not only sheds light on the …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National … biology, single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, machine learning for experimental science, …

The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … and analyzing the genome in order to find the genetic traits responsible for  P. trifoliata ’s hardiness, …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship … between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer … And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the … I started this, uh, summer internship was working with big data, but something that I learned from this program was how …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … considered sisters to land plants, based on shared genetic traits and evolutionary lineage. They provide a unique …