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Methane is a greenhouse 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 …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes … native microbes. Metagenomes from enrichment cultures were sequenced and assembled by the JGI. From these assemblies, …

Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in … for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI … in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” … elements based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. Roux was first author on a study featuring a new …

… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …

In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …