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… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the … users — have access to high-quality, assembled datasets from all of this information. The JGI aims to create … that pays dividends. Microbes are at the core of many environmental processes, and their genetic makeup forms the …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on … Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their … The topics students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather …

… internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully … work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome … zinc has allowed polar algae to inhabit their frigid environment, Mock pointed out that as climate change warms …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform … small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

… Lab). Using 5,000 images of crystalized samples cloned and synthesized by the JGI, scientists have begun the … of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a … researchers to access capabilities of the JGI and the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL), another DOE …

… a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

… into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting … as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging … that allows plants to better survive in those environments,”  Karen Serrano said. She is first author of this …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), … of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences …