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… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from … Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler …

… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or … researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This …

… From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan … Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] Vassili Kouvelis, Seppe Kuehn, Tesfaye Mengiste, Egbert Schwartz, Hannah … JGI’s User Programs. “These PIs have proposed research that addresses various important scientific questions …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently …

… [ Pictured from left: [Above] Hao Chen, Matthew Cope-Arguello, Theophilus Olufemi Isimikalu, Todd H. Oakley, BJ Philmus and Aaron M. Roshotte; … our  CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI's DNA synthesis and omics …

… Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI … Ivanova and Simon Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah Tringe and Tanja Woyke, were all … elements based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. Roux was first author on a study featuring a new …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a … are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel … uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important … GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State …

… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating … with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and other national user facilities. Focus areas for these …

… Pictured from left: [Above] Hanin Alzubaidy, Markus Covert, Sheel C. Dodani, … state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who translate genomic information into biological … our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI's biodesign and omics …