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… focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began developing larger comparative … plant genomics.      Nucleic Acids Research 40, D1178. Publications … Scientific Advisory Board member, InterMine …

… why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these … Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha … which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team …