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… days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic …

… in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab … This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab …

… trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists who have uncovered …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we … are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

… could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the … With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens …

… and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's … been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake … large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a coral host, a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized … corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help them take the heat. …