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Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for … messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) call represents … and expertise of multiple DOE National User Facilities in one research proposal.  Successful applications will …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , … Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing …

Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like …

… change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar regions. While microbial populations in other …

Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … M. importuna CCBAS932 from the forests of France, were sequenced and annotated by a collaborative team. The genome sequences and annotations are available on JGI’s fungal …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to … 39,870 projects in FY24 We generated 871 Terabases of sequence We synthesized 9.7 Megabases of DNA We processed … culminated in a reference for the complex  sugarcane genome sequence. The JGI  partnered  with synchrotron user …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …