Joint Genome Institute

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the home of the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is above in the background.

The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a scientific user facility for integrative genomic science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1] The mission of the JGI is to advance genomics research in support of the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) missions of energy and the environment. It is one of three national scientific user facilities supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) within the Department of Energy's Office of Research.[2] These BER facilities are part of a more extensive network of 28 national scientific user facilities that operate at the DOE national laboratories.[3][4]

The JGI advances genomics research by providing the research community with access to the latest generation of genome sequencing and analysis capabilities. It employs a staff of 250 scientists, technicians, and other personnel to support the research of the 2,180 scientific users who make use of it for their research each year.[5] The facility sequenced 658 trillion total bases in FY 2022, and this output is now doubling about every two years.[6]

  1. ^ "DOE Joint Genome Institute". Berkeley Lab. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  2. ^ "BER User Facilities". US Department of Energy Office of Science. 9 December 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  3. ^ "User Facilities". US Department of Energy Office of Science. 29 September 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  4. ^ "User Facilities at a Glance". US Department of Energy Office of Science. 3 May 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  5. ^ "Joint Genome Institute". U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. 29 April 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  6. ^ "DOE metrics/statistics". Joint Genome Institute. Retrieved February 20, 2023.