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… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies The Science The  Metagenome … tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein … Those similarities, based on their ratios of small DNA sequence fragments called tetranucleotides, are a way to …

… “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of modern, … a first monoploid reference sequence using a targeted approach that focused on the gene rich part of the genome by …

… Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team … by searching for Cas12d homologs across IMG/M’s assembled metagenomic data. It turned out that some of these were …

… poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how … to the data made available through this multidisciplinary approach allows researchers to conduct a wide variety of … managed through human intervention. By leveraging metagenomics, scientists were able to analyze the DNA of …

… Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is no cost to the user and no granting of funds.    Proposal Call FICUS CSP Large Scale CSP New Investigator CSP Functional Genomics JGI-TMF Critical Minerals and … CLOSED ONGOING ONGOING CLOSED Who Should Apply? Investigators with research projects that integrate the expertise and …

… provides the scientific community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing, synthesis, and metabolomics at the JGI for projects of relevance to Department of Energy (DOE)  Mission Areas . Through this program, the DOE aims to advance genome science-based scientific research from a …

… and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Through multi-platform stories and outreach efforts, the team aims to broaden awareness of and access to JGI public resources and the DOE mission, as well as help … is the JGI's Communications and Outreach Manager. Click to see the coverage of JGI-enabled science highlighting user …