WALNUT CREEK, CA–The U.S. Department of Energy investment in large-scale genome sequencing is paying dividends with powerful implications for the nation’s energy and environmental clean-up needs, according to a report just released by the DOE Joint Genome Institute. As the leading national user facility targeting microbes and microbial communities, plants, and aquatic organisms, DOE JGI… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–Responding to the escalating demand for genome sequencing to unlock the potential of plants and microbes as fuel for the nation’s energy needs, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has announced the call for 2007 Community Sequencing Program (CSP) proposals. The applications for the CSP capacity have been doubling… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–The fourth version of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has been made available to the public. The new version, IMG 1.3, contains 42 additional genomes sequenced by other institutions and 20 new genomes sequenced by DOE JGI, bringing the… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–An enhanced version of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has been made available to the public. The new version, IMG 1.2, contains 270 additional public genomes and nine (four finished, five draft) new JGI genomes, bringing the total… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–An enhanced version of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). IMG 1.1 contains 32 new public genomes and 14 new genomes sequenced by DOE JGI, bringing the total of genomes in IMG to 337.  These include 301… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–As the microbial world comes to light through DNA sequencing, the new Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) will deliver valuable information for the benefit of the global research community. “The IMG system is an essential enhancement to the computational toolkit… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), culminating a 16-year effort, has completed its share of the Human Genome Project with the publication of the DNA sequence and analysis of chromosome 16 in the Dec. 23 issue of Nature. “The Department of Energy is very proud of its historic role in… [Read More]