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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … to thrive outside aquatic environments. The Impact A deeper understanding of how plants adapted to terrestrial … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which …

Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … who heads JGI’s User Programs. “These PIs have proposed research that addresses various important scientific questions … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

… range. But at what cost?  A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for … , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a … close those stomata to prevent water loss, but that also prevents CO2 from coming into the leaf and it basically starves …

… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a … Zhong Wang while Karen Tolentino worked with Brachypodium researcher John Vogel. Other students hosted this summer were: …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic … gene prediction algorithms. I decided to dig in a little deeper, and realized what was really happening,” recalled …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in … Jorge Arroyo , director of UC Merced’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center, echoed similar sentiments for the …

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 … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established …

… like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for …