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Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became … et al. (2021) Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome. Nat Microbiol . 6(7):960-970. …

… challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along … v4 at the 2022 VEGA meeting below). Another JGI-developed tool, CheckV, assesses viral genomes, and grades their …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three … design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and … 20:12. 2019 Anderson et. al., Exploiting algal NADPH oxidase for biophotovoltaic energy. Plant biotechnology journal …

… and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to them. The Committee is … scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor does it direct the Programs’ …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program … calls. These documents have been shared with permission from the PIs who drafted them.  … Elucidating Sphagnum …

… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th … changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in … See you next time. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered tools to study this complexity, including single-cell and … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this … (UC Merced Intern) Ruoxi Zhao (UC Merced Intern) Alex Pennacchio (Occidental College Intern) Cristian Espinosa (UC …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector … is JGI software developer Brian Bushnell, no alignment-free tool exists for proteins. (And while Mash and BBsketch can …