Introduction to JGI/Bioinformatics Workshop 

(Simon Roux, Natalia Ivanova, and Rekha Seshadri)

JGI: The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is an AI-driven genomic science facility supporting DOE missions in energy and biotechnology. It generates and analyzes large-scale genomic and metagenomic data from plants, fungi, and microbial systems, providing researchers with open-access tools and datasets to study complex biological processes and advance environmental and biotechnological applications