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For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s … assembly. So while researchers are confident all the DNA sequences came from one cell, including components like …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. 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 … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria sequenced from the metagenomic soil samples from the four …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. … individual with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more recent event (0.14 Mya) with a maternal  B. …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of …