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… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … provides scientific and managerial guidance for all aspects of the JGI. This includes responsibilities toward the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … microscopic water mold, genetically related to such aquatic species as diatoms and kelp. Dubbed Phytopthora ramorum … of millions of trees in California alone. With the genome sequence in hand, the UC team led the charge to develop …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has … of a team that presented the first large analysis of an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.       Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a … Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  Dothideomycetes includes …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 … Following DOE approval, project managers negotiate project specifics with PIs (including JGI scientists as needed), and …

Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally … remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness … messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) call represents a unique … on an accelerated timeline as compared with the standard CSP projects. In addition, they must utilize a broad range of …