The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a scientific user facility for integrative genomic science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 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. These BER facilities are part of a more extensive network of 28 national scientific user facilities that operate at the DOE national laboratories. 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. The facility sequenced 658 trillion total bases in FY 2022, and this output is now doubling about every two years. Research at JGI Research at JGI is organized into seven programs. The JGI provides users with access, at no cost, to high-throughput genomic and specialized capabilities and data analysis. Researchers submit proposals to one of the seven JGI user programs, and all proposals are reviewed for scientific merit and relevance to the DOE research mission. If the proposal is approved, the JGI provides the users a number of standard sequencing, synthesis, and metabolomics products. Collaborations The JGI collaborates extensively with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The two facilities jointly manage the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, designed for researchers who require the capabilities of both user facilities to perform their research. The JGI also performs extensive sequencing on behalf of the four DOE Bioenergy Research Centers. Leadership The Director of JGI since 2017 is Nigel Mouncey. Mouncey also serves as the President of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) History The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was created in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in genome mapping, DNA sequencing, technology development, and information sciences pioneered at the DOE genome centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).In 1999, the University of California, which manages the three national labs for the DOE, leased laboratory and office space in a light industrial