DOE Joint Genome Institute
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- Phylogenomics
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Latest News
December 8, 2008
DOE Joint Genome Institute Completes Soybean Genome—Data Released to Advance Biofuel, Food, & Feed Research.
The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has released a complete draft assembly of the soybean (Glycine max) genetic code, making it widely available to the research community to advance new breeding strategies for one of the world’s most valuable plant commodities. Soybean not only accounts for 70 percent of the world’s edible protein, but also is an emerging feedstock for biodiesel production. Soybean is second only to corn as an agricultural commodity and is the leading U.S. agricultural export.
November 25, 2008
DOE JGI Issues Call for Genome Sequencing Proposals
The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), through its Community Sequencing Program (CSP), is soliciting proposals related to the DOE missions of bioenergy, global carbon cycling and biogeochemical processes influencing contaminant transport. Targets include bacterial and archaeal isolates, large-scale eukaryotic or bacterial resequencing efforts that exploit next-generation sequencing technologies, eukaryotic reference genomes, and environmental microbial genomes (metagenomes). Letters of intent will be accepted beginning December 15, 2008 and are due January 30, 2009.
October 15, 2008
Diatom Genome Helps Explain Their Great Diversity and Success in Trapping Excess Carbon in Oceans
Diatoms, mighty microscopic algae, have profound influence on climate, producing 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe by capturing atmospheric carbon and in so doing, countering the greenhouse effect.
September 24, 2008
After the First Decade of Metagenomics--Adolescent Growth Spurt Anticipated
Mostly hidden from the scrutiny of the naked eye, microbes have been said to run the world. The challenge is how best to characterize them given that less than one percent of the estimated hundreds of millions of microbial species can be cultured in the laboratory.
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.
Deadline for CSP Genome Sequencing Proposals is January 30, 2009
Releases
- November 14, 2008
Chlorella vulgaris - November 12, 2008
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans subsp. desulfuricans
Desulfovibrio salexigens DSM 2638 - November 5, 2008
Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PAl 5
Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii WSM2304 - October 31, 2008
Melampsora larici-populina - October 30, 2008
Phytophthora capsici - September 8, 2008
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC - August 20, 2008
Anaeromyxobacter sp. K
Geobacter bemidjiensis Bem - August 18, 2008
Chlorobaculum parvum NCIB
Chloroherpeton thalassium ATCC - August 13, 2008
Hydrogenobaculum sp. Y04AAS1
Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1
