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We are a DOE Office of Science User Facility
Supported by the DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research program, the JGI provides advanced genomic capabilities, large-scale AI-ready data and professional expertise so researchers can contribute to advancing energy and infrastructure security.

The JGI offers deep expertise and a broad toolset.

Analyze Data
Access community data and leverage tools available from JGI portals and partners.
Analyze Data
Work With Us
Discover how to avail of capabilities and resources through our user programs.
Work With Us
User Stories
Follow the research journeys of our users and how the JGI helps advance their science.
User Stories

The JGI at a Glance

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Global Users
Each year, the JGI serves over 2,000 users — researchers with accepted project proposals — at all career stages.
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A Diversity of Capabilities
With an accepted proposal, JGI Users gain access to deep expertise and a broad toolset.
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A network of the JGI's data portals and their citations.
Data Portals
We generate and provide access to data that support interdisciplinary work on a broad variety of organisms. Each dot in these networks shows a publication that mentions a given data portal, with work that cross-references multiple portals in between respective hubs.
See our list of JGI portals
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Foundational Work
JGI’s scientific contributions reverberates over time to enable many discoveries. The Soybean genome shown is one example — since the original reference genome, the entire project has directly impacted over 5,000 unique studies. These works have gone on to influence over 100,000 further studies.
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a series of 20 headshots sits beneath the text Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients. The JGI and Molecular Foundry logos sit in the upper right corner
Inaugural Critical Minerals & Materials Portfolio Announced

This year the JGI and the Molecular Foundry launched a joint call for their collaborative user program. This portfolio of research proposals integrates genomics with nanoscale science, all aimed at accelerating discoveries and developing transformative bio-based technologies involving critical minerals and materials.

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Genome Insider Podcast: The Mobilome in the Mire

Mobile genetic elements get missed in data sets because they move between organisms. Now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods bring this mobilome into light. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire.

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JGI releases FY25 Progress Report

This year, the JGI served a record number of primary users — 2,627 researchers around the world had active proposals with us, along with more than 17,000 researchers who made use of our data. As of the end of fiscal year 2025, we've completed a total of 349,105 projects.


 

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Our homepage video includes external footage from: University of Delaware; Laura.Selbmann©PNRA. All the sampling activities in Antarctica have been performed in the frame of italian expeditions of the Italian National Program for Antarctic Researches (PNRA),  funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research; all specimens collected and fungi isolated are preserved in the Culture Collection of Fungi from Extreme Environment, the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA-CCFEE).