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Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic … annotation and classification framework that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses … data and access the geNomad tool to conduct their research. Designed to reduce the effects of taxonomic representation …

… have now developed CheckV (pronounced “Check-Vee”) to help researchers assess and improve the quality of … to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral … to this point, there has been a lack of fast and accurate tools for researchers to assess the quality of …

… at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to include undergraduate students. To date, more than 80 UC Merced students have contributed to … work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and connect with Lab staff. Increase their technical skills and …

California honing their scientific skills and collaborating with their mentors and fellow interns. Inspired by the success of the UC … program, they left the JGI more confident and ready to tackle real-world scientific issues. Our interns say …

Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access … candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great Plate-Count … … Research Interests … Former Lab Members … Selected Publications … For further details, please reach out to the …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 … is a suite of fast, multithreaded bioinformatics tools designed for analysis of DNA and RNA sequence data.  … …

… download experience accessible from JGI’s plant portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal is currently only … so our joint team started small, in the tradition of agile design and development,” said Linda Setchell, a Truss … more complex types of research without requiring them to build their own tools to do so.” The JGI/Truss team has …

… metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the environment, and human health. As the JGI acts on its goals in — and builds out its capabilities for — secondary metabolism …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … amino acids are assembled, which then band together to build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the …