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… photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … warmer waters, including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). … expressing, the team sequenced their RNA transcripts. All sequencing was done through the JGI Community Science …

… decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a … at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Genome Sequencing Center and a member of the JGI Plant Program. … Development (USAID) also supported the work.   Publication:  Morris, G.P., Harder, A.M., Healey, A.L.  et …

… Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the … over 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing protocols so that researchers could compare … at PNNL by DOE BER ESS. Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing was performed at the JGI under a Community …

… and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies … more genomes from complex metagenomes than any of the single binning tools alone,” primarily because of its … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is …

… methods for efficient QA/QC based on next-generation sequencing technologies including PacBio and Illumina.  The … on developing methods for converting digital information from sequence databases into biotechnological or … engineering pathways to function in heterologous hosts, by combining combinatorial synthesis, high-throughput …

… current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the genomes helped to reinforce Charles Darwin’s “survival of … covering the entire kingdom of fungi. “The information from this project may also have a practical relevance with …

… analysis as well as improving metagenome assemblies. Q&A from the Webinar: Input & sequencing Q(uestion): How much DNA is needed for “regular” … weight DNA) is an important factor as well for PacBio metagenomes. Q: How many PacBio metagenomes can I submit?  How …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to … samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with names — …

… merit, DOE mission relevance, proposed data usage by the applicant/community, and track record of the applicant. For accepted proposals, sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics and analysis will be provided for free to the PI by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is …

… plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified … office building, its roots are akin to the ground floor lobby. People walking into the lobby have many reasons for …

… that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of … resists a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an … secrets. This work builds upon JGI-supported research led by Gmitter and JGI’s Daniel Rokhsar, published over the last …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the world, expanding the …