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Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission … using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 … the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be … researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future … meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for …

With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve …

FY 2025 DOE Metrics Sequencing Quarter Total Bases (Trillions) Operating Hours Goal Actual Total* … Hours reflect a delay in implementation of the LIMS from Q2 to Q3. As a result of the delay in the LIMS …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …