DOE Joint Genome Institute
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- Genetic Analysis
- Genomic Technologies
- Genome Biology
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- Microbial Ecology
- Phylogenomics
- Production Sequencing
Latest News
February 10, 2010
First Wild Grass Species and Model System for Energy Crops Sequenced. As the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) works toward developing sustainable sources of clean renewable energy, perennial grasses have emerged as major candidates for the commercial production of cellulosic biofuels from feedstocks.
January 13, 2010
Soybean Genome Analysis Reveals Pathways for Improving Biodiesel, Disease Resistance, and Reducing Waste Runoff. Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. The sequence and its analysis appear in the January 14 edition of the journal Nature.
December 23, 2009
Opening New Frontiers: First Volume of Microbial Encyclopedia Published in the Journal Nature by DOE JGI Collaborators. The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1030)
microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very
large number of distinct species. Despite the widespread availability
of microbial genome data—close to 2,000 microbes have been and are
being decoded to date—a vast unknown realm awaits scientists intent on
exploring microorganisms that inhabit this “undiscovered country.”
October 22, 2009
Model Microbial Community for Studying Expanding Dead Zones Characterized. Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on the seafloor and alter the microbial activities that impact the rate and magnitude of ocean carbon sequestration.
October 8, 2009
Establishing Standard Definitions for Genome Sequences. In 1996, researchers from major genome sequencing centers around the world convened on the island of Bermuda and defined a finished genome as a gapless sequence with a nucleotide error rate of one or less in 10,000 bases.
The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, supported by the DOE Office of Science, unites the expertise of five national laboratories—Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Pacific Northwest—along with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to advance genomics in support of the DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. JGI is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Latest Releases
- March 18, 2010
Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens BL-DC-9 - March 16, 2010
Denitrovibrio acetiphilus DSM 12809
Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum MS-1
