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… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea … Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years … after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, after …

… the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result … “It’s an exciting time in the field of genomics and JGI scientists are developing cutting edge technologies to …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium , my colleagues and I decided to re-visit … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established …

In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related … about their ability to adapt to changing environments, scientists have turned their attention to the pangenomes of …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … method can be  accessed here so that, Session said, other scientists can “follow a step-by-step process to apply it to …

The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data … from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a …