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… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in … a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best practices for characterizing … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and NSF  1706545 (IW). HA and JW were supported by the Office of …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their …

… Leveraging decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and … in lines, as well as how structural changes connect to specific traits. They also saw long-studied traits come into …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The … yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , allowing this species to grow better than its closest relative S. … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each containing …

… All participants and staff of JGI events are required to adhere to the following Code … an environment where everyone feels welcome to participate, speak up, ask questions, and engage in conversation. This …

… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of … and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, …