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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model … of plants.  Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic diversity beyond a single reference genome, which is key to …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … a secondary metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as …

… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the pipelines for directed finishing and co-led … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed …

… is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted … of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their …

Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: …

Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the … in genomics, including JGI, is not representative of the diversity in the population, especially here in California. … Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem …