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… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … (Berkeley Lab) describe a computational pipeline that can specifically scan for those snowflakes, or RNA virus … data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) generated from diverse environmental samples around the world, …

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

… Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

… meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

… 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. …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer; a few …

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

…   Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will …

… 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 …

… 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. …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities to speak on a national level. A crowd of excited attendees … all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want …