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… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  Across the forest types, Martin and his team …

… in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to … relationships and to provide valuable reference genomes in under-populated areas of the tree of life, as … genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic potential …

… The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, … in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the  DOE Systems Biology … Genomic Science Workshop Agenda: 6:20 PM Overview and Joint Genome Institute Plant Program Update 6:33 PM Comparative …

… lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, … the virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the …

… methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the … sequencing and analysis. “Using a technique called metagenome binning, we were able to reconstruct thousands of …

… assembly, analysis, annotation, verification, creation of genome browsers, etc. The users, collaborators, and JGI …

… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, … darwinii are the others. All of these cotton lineages have genomes approximately 2.3 billion bases or Gigabases (Gb) in … of the world, a major oilseed crop, and important cattle feed crop,” noted David Stelly, another study co-author at …

… For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could help inform efforts at … The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared them to close relatives who don’t …

… analyses, such as metabolic modeling, that go well beyond genome annotation and analysis. The JGI and KBase seek to … data on scales ranging from single genes and individual genomes to metagenomes to systems-level modeling and understanding. JGI …

… researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …

… energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was … a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. Having this first genome sequence of a …

… (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) Project through a 2012 Community Science … State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi … for an encyclopedia of reference genomes for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP proposals came in 2016 that would …