DOE Joint Genome Institute » Science Highlights

Building off JGI and KBase data resources, researchers developed an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative microbes.

http://jgi.doe.gov/finding-the-fermenters/

JGI-enabled research shows eelgrass began colonizing oceans over 2.5 million years more recently than previously thought.

http://jgi.doe.gov/scihi-eelgrass-proves-to-be-much-younger-that-we-thought/

Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum Chloroflexota. Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of Chloroflexota that...

http://jgi.doe.gov/scihi-new-research-finds-flagella-in-the-terrestrial-roots-of-marine-bacteria/

Recently, researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often act as parasites, in other cases, they likely help their hosts.

http://jgi.doe.gov/scihi-for-the-tiniest-archaea-a-genomic-switch-of-friend-or-foe/

Researchers at the JGI developed geNomad, a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses.

http://jgi.doe.gov/scihi-genomad/

Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP. It combines and evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their arc...

http://jgi.doe.gov/iphop-a-matchmaker-for-phages-and-their-hosts/

Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi.

http://jgi.doe.gov/supercharging-sip-in-the-fungal-hyphosphere/

Microbial communities around hydrothermal vents survive in very hot, high-pressure and chemically-rich ecosystems. They hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments.

http://jgi.doe.gov/new-research-sheds-light-on-diversity-in-the-deep-sea/

Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.

http://jgi.doe.gov/sequencing-sphagnum-leads-to-discovery-of-sex-chromosomes/

A new study offers the first irrefutable proof that anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the stomachs of livestock — can deconstruct lignin in the absence of oxygen.

http://jgi.doe.gov/busting-the-unbreakable-lignin/