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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing protocols so …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has … the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. At the time, the vital global source of …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  … Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, including those …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … help solve energy and environmental challenges.   The Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems … The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone … the goal is to create an entirely human-generated yeast genome. …

Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of … technology in order to enhance the quality of single-cell genomes and directly link functional information with … DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different … – Sphagnum fallax and S. magellanicum. The draft genome for  S. fallax is already available on the  JGI plant …