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JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 … the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future … meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for …

With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school … Florida, they encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US … scientific knowledge, they are also equipping the next generation of scientists that will help shape all of our …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the … genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been … is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … developing and harnessing single-cell methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their …