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Refined annotation and assembly of the Tetrahymena thermophila genome sequence through EST analysis, comparative genomic hybridization, and targeted gap closure
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Complete Genome Sequence of Micromonospora Strain L5, a Potential Plant-Growth-Regulating Actinomycete, Originally Isolated from Casuarina equisetifolia Root Nodules
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Transposon Mutagenesis Paired with Deep Sequencing of Caulobacter crescentus under Uranium Stress Reveals Genes Essential for Detoxification and Stress Tolerance
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Year in Review: JGI’s 2018 Progress Report Available Now
… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The … own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and …
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Celebrating a Decade of Science through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program
… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … ‘I don’t know what I need to do but I want to become like you.’ And so here I am, living that dream from way long …
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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the …
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UC Merced Interns Reflect on Their JGI Summer Projects
… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … enabled a fruitful experience for mentors and students alike. Tools like Slack, Google Docs, and GitHub enabled virtual … Intern: Sidharth Babu (undergraduate) Mentor: Zhong Wang Click the image …
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The Power of One, Amplified
… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics … snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large mixtures of genomic sequences. A complementary approach to this is single cell … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …
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Antarctic lake viromes reveal potential virus associated influences on nutrient cycling in ice-covered lakes
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An Enzyme System to Help Catalyze Bioproduction of Plastic
… By characterizing the structure and function of a … and materials.  With an eye to harnessing these nitrogenase-like enzymes, researchers have recently characterized a … isolate it. The JGI provided a range of constructs based on sequences for MAR enzymes from different organisms to …
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JGI Launches Latest Strategic Plan
… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now … as far as sequencing goes, the JGI’s next petabase will likely be achieved in the next three years, if not sooner!” …
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Refining the Process of Identifying Algae Biotechnology Candidates
… [subhed -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing … Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in … expertise at the National Labs to screen, characterize, sequence and then analyze the genomes and multi-omics …
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