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Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, including those …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other … 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … 2018, Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline … roles in the global sulfur cycle. Copies are available online – click here to go download one from the archive of …

Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab … biology to address some of the pressing challenges we face today.  Ultimately, we’ll enable our users to leverage …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Annotation Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … a team of researchers sought to disrupt every gene in the genome with CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s …

… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s … summer were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with Matt Blow; …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … the goal is to create an entirely human-generated yeast genome. …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … City. Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. Grimwood heads the Library … soon after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford …