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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Since one of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost and resource requirements of … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias …

… habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on … plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the … a DOE Office of Science User Facility, compared the genomes of two strains of fungi Serpula lacrymans – var. …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … In each garden, switchgrass plants clonally propagated from cuttings represent a diverse collection sourced from … test genetic hypotheses in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …

… Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has been … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from …

… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools developed … by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Berkeley Lab. …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … fostering academia-industry collaborations.” A third story from the issue — Machine learning-based prediction of …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching … summer were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with …