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… provides scientific and managerial guidance for all aspects of the JGI. This includes responsibilities toward the JGI internal scientific programs, … DOE National Laboratories, the Community Science Program (CSP), and external collaborations. The Director ensures the …

… 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 … … Publication: Tyler BM et al. Phytophthora genome sequences uncover evolutionary origins and mechanisms of …

Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… of a team that presented the first large analysis of an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi play important roles in areas ranging from … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 …

… at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these …

… 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 … of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) directly from sequenced environmental samples without needing to cultivate …

… 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 … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  Dothideomycetes includes …

Following DOE approval, project managers negotiate project specifics with PIs (including JGI scientists as needed), and …

… 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 … that RNA viruses are actually interesting and not just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

… on an accelerated timeline as compared with the standard CSP projects. In addition, they must utilize a broad range of … Following DOE approval, project managers negotiate project specifics with PIs (including JGI scientists as needed), and … University, which contains representative samples of the spatial, temporal, taxonomic (environmental, microbial, …