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… joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to expand the JGI’s portfolio of user companies. Now the Department of Energy is uniting … and assembled physical DNA constructs that can then be functionally characterized.  Our metabolomics platform …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uncovered a broad diversity of large and giant viruses that belong to the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning … synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor …

… With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic … it predicted many more likely hosts for viruses in human microbiome samples, reflecting factors such as the quality …

… genome discoveries. Unlocking the intricate details of life’s genetic blueprint has long been a significant … foundation models. However, the sheer vastness of microbial diversity is not covered by reference genomes.”  Most of the … ecological Harvard Forest project, large datasets from soil microbiome studies collected across various terrains, and …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … the JGI provided DNA synthesis capabilities to enable functional testing of these enzymes. Yasuo Yoshikuni, head … during specializing or multiplying, ATs have maintained functional versatility with fewer enzyme copies. In this …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” … , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of the Human Genome Project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team … is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of plants and animals by combining computational …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test … and enzymes that were once trapped inside are now, still functional, in a kind of biomolecular soup. The soup permits …