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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … a paper in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …

… a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team … to foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In the event of …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and … Lab), and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in …