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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered …
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Model Fern Reveals Insight into DNA Thievery in Ferns
… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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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 … forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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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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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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Viral Genomics Group
… 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 …
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Duplications and losses of genes encoding known elements of the stress defence system of the Aspergilli contribute to the evolution of these filamentous fungi but do not directly influence their environmental stress tolerance
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JGI-KBase Panel at SACNAS
Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is … will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting … get credit for their contributions to science. A panel of DOE researchers, program managers, and intern alumni will …
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Toasting to the 2020 JGI-UC Merced Summer Internship Program
On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders …
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Yasuo Yoshikuni
… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the … synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology …
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Zhong Wang
Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up … GPU, Cloud etc) and their applications in solving DOE’s most challenging problems. … PhD Cell Biology. Duke …
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