WALNUT CREEK, CA–Can you lose scores of pages from a novel and still follow the story line? In the case of the mouse’s genome, or “book of life” — and perhaps even our own — the answer appears to be, astonishingly, “yes.” Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and Lawrence… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–Four years after publicly revealing the official draft human genetic sequence, researchers have reached the halfway point in dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s of the genetic sentences describing how to build a human. The newly finalized chromosome 5 is the 12th chromosome polished off, with 12 more to go. As the… [Read More]

WALNUT CREEK, CA–Researchers are closer now to thwarting two related plant pathogens, one causing “Sudden Oak Death” (SOD) and another responsible for a devastating soybean disease, thanks to the DNA sequence produced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), in collaboration with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI). The projects received nearly… [Read More]

Walnut Creek, CA–The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and Stanford University report today the completion of the sequencing of human chromosome 19, the most gene-rich of all the human chromosomes. This achievement is described in the April 1, 2004 edition of the journal Nature. “Culminating 18 years of research, this… [Read More]

Walnut Creek, CA–Researchers from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the University of California, Berkeley, report the first genomic characterization of a microbial community. The results announced online February 1st in the journal Nature reveal how the genetic identities of microorganisms thriving in toxic conditions, “extremophiles,” were recovered from a natural biofilm… [Read More]

The Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is poised for a resounding response to the age-old question, “If we build it, will they come?” Already, collaborators are queuing up to take advantage of one of the world’s most powerful DNA sequencing facilities for the debut of DOE’s Community Sequencing Program (CSP). “The primary goal… [Read More]