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… ‘Dark Matter’ Microbial communities living everywhere from soils and stomachs to the deep sea are capable of doing … call “known knowns” — that is, they are similar to genes with known function. Others are called ‘known … specific environment — whether that be soil, animal hosts, marine ecosystems, etc.  “So, they must be doing something …

Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship … than 80 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of numerous JGI scientists. Interns say their experiences allowed them to:  Learn new skills. Experience industry-level work and coding. …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the world, expanding the … been associated with a host – with 23,000 MAGs. Modeling A New Path for Metagenomics Researchers Building upon these …

Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental … fostering academia-industry collaborations.” A third story from the issue — Machine learning-based prediction of … large-scale functional screens for characterization of new enzymes and use the data we generated to train machine …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on … specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment …

… is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community Science Program . …