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Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

… a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria sequenced from the metagenomic soil samples from the four …

Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar inviting researchers to … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …

… genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. … as well as atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Summary Researchers sequenced 11 samples from Asia–Australasia and 13 samples …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the University of … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which … plant resilience and productivity. The algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s  PhycoCosm portal. … …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …

DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s … assembly. So while researchers are confident all the DNA sequences came from one cell, including components like …