User Facility CRISPR Connection: JGI

As part of Jennifer Doudna’s research for the CRISPR gene-editing tool, which won her a Nobel Prize on Wednesday, her team utilized JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes system and its immense collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets to find novel Cas genes. https://jgi.doe.gov/from-life-at-extremes-to-editing-genomes-doudna-nobel/