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Battling Brown Tide: First Genome Sequence of a HAB Species

JGI — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:55:06 -0800

Slideshow narrated by DOE JGI collaborator Chris Gobler of Stony Brook University regarding the first genome sequence of a harmful algal bloom (HAB) species - Aureococcus anophagefferens. The study was published ahead online February 23, 2011 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For more information, go to http://bit.ly/hkp0qq

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JGI Science @ the Lesher: "The Future of Fuel"

JGI — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:59:56 -0800

The kickoff event of the "JGI Science at the Lesher" series featured a panel consisting of Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) CEO Jay Keasling, DOE Joint Genome Institute Deputy Director Jim Bristow, and DOE JGI Staff Scientist Susannah Tringe, who are developing ways to convert the solar energy stored in plants into liquid transportation fuels.

The panel was moderated by KTVU Channel 2 Health and Science Editor John Fowler moderated a panel consisting of The event took place at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California on January 18, 2011.

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"Sequencing Split-gill: Beyond Breaking Biomass"

JGI — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:20:17 -0700

DOE JGI's Igor Grigoriev and University of Utrecht's Han Wosten discuss the split-gill mushroom, a wood-degrading fungus whose genome was published online July 11, 2010 in Nature Biotechnology in this complement to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's news release (http://go.usa.gov/O8a).

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"Turning up the heat"

JGI — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:42:02 -0700

DOE JGI's Thanos Lykidis and University of Illinois' Wen-Tso Liu discuss microbial communities that help clean up wastewater generated by a compound used to make plastics in this complement to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's news release (http://go.usa.gov/cBC).

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Volvox: Beyond Small is Simple

JGI — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:48:47 -0700

DOE JGI's Simon Prochnik, Salk Institute's Jim Umen and Washington University's David Kirk talk about the alga Volvox carteri and why sequencing its genome matters in this complement to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's news release (http://go.usa.gov/cq9) regarding the publication of the Volvox genome in the July 9, 2010 issue of the journal Science.

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GSC 9: Open discussion of session: Unifying concepts in genomic annotation standards

psterk1 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:10:27 -0700

9th Genomic Standards Consortium Workshop held at JCVI, Rockville, MD, USA April 28-30, 2010 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_9)
Open discussion of session: Unifying concepts in genomic annotation standards with Nikos Kyrpides, Tatiana Tatusova, Owen White and Peter Karp.

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Gene Calling Standards

psterk1 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:33:01 -0700

9th Genomic Standards Consortium Workshop at JCVI, Rockville, MD, USA, April 28-30, 2010 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_9).
Gene Calling Standards presented by Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute

9th Genomic Standards Consortium Workshop

Genome Notes from the Genomic Encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea genomes in Standards in Genomic Sciences

psterk1 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:22:51 -0700

9th Genomic Standards Consortium Workshop held at JCVI, Rockville, MD, USA April 28-30, 2010 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_9)
Hans-Peter Klenk reports on the GEBA genome report in SIGS

9th Genomic Standards Consortium Workshop

GenePRIMP: A tool for improving microbial gene prediction quality

JGI — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:54:28 -0700

Amrita Pati of the DOE Joint Genome Institute's Genome Biology group describes the software tool GenePRIMP and how it fits into the quality control pipeline for microbial genomics. Further details regarding GenePRIMP appear in a paper published online May 2, 2010 in Nature Methods.

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Uffe Hellsten on the first frog genome, X. tropicalis

JGI — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:05:04 -0700

Bioinformaticist Uffe Hellsten, first author of the April 30, 2010 Science publication on first amphibian genome to be sequenced, talks about the importance of the African clawed frog in developmental biology at the DOE JGI.

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Simon Prochnik on Naegleria gruberi at the DOE JGI

JGI — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:16:37 -0800

Simon Prochnik spoke about the Naegleria gruberi genome project at the DOE JGI on February 3, 2010.

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Jeremy Schmutz on the soybean genome

JGI — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:01:40 -0800

Jeremy Schmutz, a faculty investigator at the Alabama-based HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and first author of the paper on the soybean genome sequence published in the January 14, 2010 issue of the journal Nature, discusses the project in this complement to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's news release (http://tr.im/Kiik).

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Jonathan Eisen and the GEBA project - video linked to news release re Dec. 2009 Nature paper

JGI — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:04:14 -0800

DOE JGI Phylogenomics Program Head and UC Davis professor Jonathan Eisen discusses the GEBA project in this complement to the news release regarding the GEBA paper published in the journal Nature on December 24, 2009.

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Jonathan Eisen discusses GEBA project at DOE JGI

JGI — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:50:03 -0800

Jonathan Eisen spoke about the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) at the DOE JGI on October 27, 2009.

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Patrick Chain on Genome Project Standards at GSC8

JGI — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:59:07 -0700

Patrick Chain of the DOE Joint Genome Institute talks about finishing standards for genome projects at the Genomic Standards Consortium's 8th meeting at the DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2009.

GSC8 at DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, CA: September 9-11, 2009

Patrick Chain on "Defining Genome Project Standards in a New Era of Sequencing"

JGI — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:35:58 -0700

Patrick Chain of the DOE Joint Genome Institute gives a talk on behalf of the International Genome Sequencing Standards Consortium on the need for intermediate genome classifications between "draft" and "finished" at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 27, 2009.

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Nikos Kyrpides on Gene Calling Standards at GSC8

JGI — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:10:00 -0700

Nikos Kyrpides of the DOE Joint Genome Institute discusses gene calling standards at the Genomic Standards Consortium's 8th meeting at the DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, Calif. on Sept. 10, 2009.

GSC8 at DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, CA: September 9-11, 2009

Nikos Kyrpides on a GSC Global Genome Census at GSC8

JGI — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:46:06 -0700

Nikos Kyrpides of the DOE Joint Genome Institute discusses the notion of a global genome census at the Genomic Standards Consortium's 8th meeting at the DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2009.

GSC8 at DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, CA: September 9-11, 2009

Cliff Han on "Prescreening Illumina Data Results in High-Quality Genome Polishing"

JGI — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:40 -0700

Cliff Han of the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks about modifying their bacterial genome sequencing process to accommodate new sequencing technologies at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 28, 2009.

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Amrita Pati on "GenePRIMP: Improving Microbial Gene Prediction Quality"

JGI — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:15:07 -0700

Amrita Pati of the DOE Joint Genome Institute's Genome Biology group talks about a computational pipeline that evaluates the accuracy of gene models in genomes and metagenomes at different stages of finishing at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 29, 2009.

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Victor Markowitz on "IMG Systems for Comparative Analysis of Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes"

JGI — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:52:34 -0700

Victor Markowitz, head of the Biological Data Management and Technology Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, talks about the Integrated Microbial Genomes system housed at the DOE JGI at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 29, 2009.

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Miriam Land on "Automated Microbial Genome Annotation"

JGI — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:38:42 -0700

Miriam Land of the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory gives a talk on the current state and future challenges of moving toward automated microbial genome annotation at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 29, 2009.

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Alla Lapidus on "New technology drafts: production and improvements"

JGI — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:29:13 -0700

Alla Lapidus, head of the DOE Joint Genome Institute's Finishing group, gives a talk on how the DOE JGI's microbial genome sequencing pipeline has been adapted to accommodate next generation sequencing platforms at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 28, 2009.

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Dan Rokhsar at the DOE JGI 2009 User Meeting

JGI — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:02:38 -0700

Dan Rokhsar talked about the DOE JGI's Plant Genome Program on March 25, 2009 at the 4th Annual User Meeting.

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Susannah Tringe at the DOE JGI 2009 User Meeting

JGI — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:07:13 -0700

Susannah Tringe discussed the DOE JGI Metagenomic Program on March 25, 2009 at the 4th Annual User Meeting.

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Inna Dubchak at the DOE JGI 2009 User Meeting

JGI — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:35 -0700

Inna Dubchak gave an overview of the DOE JGI website at the 4th Annual Meeting on March 25, 2009.

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Jim Bristow at the DOE JGI 2009 User Meeting

JGI — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:52:14 -0700

Deputy Director of Programs Jim Bristow spoke about the DOE JGI's mission and programs at the 4th Annual User Meeting on March 25, 2009.

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Feng Chen at the DOE JGI 2009 User Meeting

JGI — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:46:28 -0700

Feng Chen spoke about sequencing technologies at the DOE JGI on March 25, 2009 during the 4th Annual User Meeting.

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DOE JGI director Eddy Rubin on biomass degrading communities

JGI — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:08:13 -0700

DOE Joint Genome Institute director Eddy Rubin spoke about biomass degrading communities, particularly the cow rumen, on May 13, 2009.

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Introduction to the 2009 DOE JGI User Meeting

JGI — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:47:56 -0700

Eddy Rubin introducing the 2009 DOE JGI User Meeting on March 25.

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David Bruce, JGI @ '09 DOE JGI User Meeting

JGI — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:37:14 -0700

David Bruce speaking at the "JGI 101 workshop" tutorial, 2009 DOE JGI User Meeting

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"Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA)"- Jonathan Eisen @ '09 DOE JGI User Meeting

JGI — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:06:08 -0700

Jonathan Eisen, (UC Davis) presentation for DOE JGI '09 User Meeting on March 26, 2009, introduction by Dan Rokhsar (JGI).