#JGInPoetry – Genomics in Verse
Going deep to improve maize transcriptome
Prochlorococcus “genomic backbones” study in The Scientist
“Some of us did not believe that microbes are infinitely diverse,” despite a prevailing assumption, said Steve Giovannoni, who studies bacterioplankton at Oregon State University and who was not involved in the study. “That very high diversity is channeled into patterns, and we’re starting to see what those patterns look like.” Read the full story in… [Read More]
Discovering diversity, one cell at a time
Deciphering the virulence of a fern fungus
Microbes in Antarctic lake divvy up the waters
Great Prairie soil study in Biomass magazine
“During the study, MSU researchers sought to compare the microbial populations of different soils sampled from sites that were once native prairie with 100 years of agricultural cultivation. The experiment yielded nearly 400 billion letters of code, which amounts to more than 130 human genome equivalents.” Learn more about the complexities of soil and then… [Read More]
Microbial dark matter study in Wired
“The idea was to go after underrepresented branches of microbial diversity – so-called Microbial Dark Matter – for which additional information would have a disproportionately large effect on the tree’s overall shape. In pursuit of these recluses, Rinke and his colleagues sampled nine different habitats that were likely to house exotic or otherwise overlooked organisms:… [Read More]