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Complete genome sequence of the termite hindgut bacterium Spirochaeta coccoides type strain (SPN1T), reclassification in the genus Sphaerochaeta as Sphaerochaeta coccoides comb. nov. and emendations of the family Spirochaetaceae and the genus
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Draft genome sequences of Arthrobacter sp. AZCC_0090 and Mycobacterium sp. AZCC_0083 isolated from oligotrophic subsurface forest soil in the Santa Catalina mountains of Southern Arizona
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
… students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … And we’ve been working on isolating and cultivating and sequencing extremophile protists from a hypersaline alkaline …
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Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov.,
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Does time matter? Intraspecific diversity of ribosomal RNA genes in lineages of the allopolyploid model grass Brachypodium hybridum with different evolutionary ages
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Uri Neri
Uri 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 viral discovery and analysis, …
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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iPHoP: A Matchmaker for Phages and their Hosts
…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses …
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Eelgrass Proves to Be Much Younger Than We Thought
Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, … duplication event — bioinformatics expertise, as well as sequencing for all global populations of eelgrass used in …
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Genome sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus cabanillasii DSM17905, Xenorhabdus ehlersii DSM16337, Xenorhabdus japonica DSM16522, Xenorhabdus koppenhoeferii DSM18168, and Xenorhabdus mauleonii DSM17908
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Simon Roux
Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new …
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From Berkeley to Binghamton: Tracking Strawberry Evolution
In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly …
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