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The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …

Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant … elements based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. Roux was first author on a study featuring a new …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral … messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential … and its productivity and decomposition rates. Peatlands, like other wetlands, can act as a carbon sink or carbon …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses … cycles. “Whether or not you planned it, viruses are most likely in your system and in your data, and they’re probably …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock … , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team … ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to pronounced climate shifts. (C4 …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into … dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of … M reductase (MCR), the final step in methanogenesis, or MCR-like complexes, likely involved in short-chain alkane …