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… 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 …

… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective … While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … , responsible for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine.   Shortly before the emergence of the SOD … of millions of trees in California alone. With the genome sequence in hand, the UC team led the charge to develop …

… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC …

… Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … a remarkable opportunity to launch a pilot project and begin the work of understanding how engineered environments contribute to greenhouse …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI … Nayfach and  Nikos Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . … hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at the bench to applying artificial … and Identification of Mitochondrial Plasmids from DNA Sequence Moitrish Majumdar Mentors: Bikash Shrestha, Crysten …

… view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how genes are regulated is like deciphering the complex … turn on or machines start humming, gene regulation determines when and where genes are activated to sustain life’s … of where those binding sites are in the genome — those sequences are moving around, disappearing and appearing in …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria … resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these …

… 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 work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and enable … review by JGI staff as well as staff at the other participating facilities, who consider technical feasibility and readiness to begin work.  During scientific peer review, …