Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta… [Read More]

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. As such, they are considered… [Read More]

Submit proposals focused on the bioinformatics community by March 1st. WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), NVIDIA, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science… [Read More]

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the June dedication event of the Integrative Genomics Building—the new home of… [Read More]

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages… [Read More]

The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and the JGI about collaborative science opportunities. Learn how to… [Read More]

The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is December 10-14, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Representatives from the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 847 in the Exhibit Hall (near the Career Center) – stop by and chat with… [Read More]

Eleven of the JGI’s researchers are among the most highly cited in the world. That’s according to the annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters. (Click here to see the full list.) The 2018 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, defined in the Methodology section as “those… [Read More]

On November 15, 2018, at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC18) Conference, teams led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), respectively, shared the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Congratulations to JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan, who was part of the ORNL-led,… [Read More]

Nanoreactor is a key enzyme in CO2-fixation cycle. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a potent greenhouse gas, and an accessible carbon source that could be converted into high-value products such as biofuels and renewable chemicals. Tobi Erb, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany and his team focus on identifying novel… [Read More]