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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … genome sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem perspective, involving more multidisciplinary teams. The work …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … said Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP projects accelerate our efforts to characterize …

… and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down … still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Since one of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost and resource requirements of … environment and transfer that ability into industry, specifically to generate biofuels,” Hess said.  (Only 90 of …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to … provided by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these 10 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s … Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , …

… with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows …

Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … researchers to discover novel lineages of life and move from the identification of microbial novelty to assigning … Bacteria and Archaea revealed by a recent genome census . Speakers John M. Archibald (Keynote) Dalhousie University  …