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Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for vitamins, …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical … time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available …

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

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back … improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large vertebrate genomes.  … Bennetzen, JL & Schmutz, J et al. 2012. Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria. Nature Biotechnology …