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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature … genes to the community level. The Impact Rivers are transport systems, and their health is heavily reliant on the … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do you want to find out … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all … I think all of you have seen that in Ray and it has been especially called on in the move to the new building where …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single species. By contrast, “allopolyploids” arise when different … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular … a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting … capabilities in just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing … report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, … find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades … Program . “After discussing the project with him, I was inspired by his enthusiasm and drive to give his students this …

… agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download experience accessible from JGI’s plant portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal … team’s ultimate goal is to allow scientists to search for specific types of data across organisms, enabling them to …

… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, … found at each site and the role they fulfilled suggest that specific environmental conditions — like temperature, pH …

Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar inviting … actually started doing when starting the lab. It has been, especially from an early career perspective, been absolutely … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …