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Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to …

… in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress …

… papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …