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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 … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human …

Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These documents have been shared …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

… year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from reseachers who translate genomic … Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function. Tapping into these functions allows …

… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … of Experimental Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in … the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

… curator there, with a broad range of experimental work on plants for drug discovery in antibiotics, anticancer, and … find me. And really it was my third grade science fair project where I first looked into a microscope and just fell … it’s not that easy. There are still not that many plant genomes, certainly nowhere close to bacterial kinds of …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … Biotechnology and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has … source of both protein and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited more …

… of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass … Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple … chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … anything. The collaborative consortium behind the GROWdb project demonstrates not only how researchers can …