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… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of …

… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant … Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who … Our method clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.”  In his words, the history of …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and …

… 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, …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into …

… Multiple 2021 HPCwire Awards ” on the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences site. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … Choice Awards . NERSC, JGI, ESnet are U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. The HPCwire … to assemble, for the first time these large environmental  microbial data sets for JGI users, which include projects …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … the JGI Algal Program, which explores genomics of algal diversity and biology to support basic science as well as … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell … “you-wren”) of the University of Arizona! They join nine other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here … He also wants to assist JGI in extending its activity-based cell sorting pipelines to further the link between …