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… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two … particularly, what happens in the rhizosphere where plants, microbes and soil interact below the ground, influencing the …

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 …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria sequenced from the metagenomic soil samples from the four …

Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative … the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of these microbes. The Impact This study illustrates how the research …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for …   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, defined in the Methodology section as “those that rank in the … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  Dothideomycetes …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and enable …

… and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …