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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. …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: … the difference between “regular” proposal and a consortium-type proposal? A: Consortium proposals can scale the request … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …