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The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, … with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include terrestrial … resource featuring the largest collection of plasmids automatically identified from genomes, metagenomes, and …

… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those …

… genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … DNA in natural environments, the Program provides a snapshot of microbial diversity and their metabolic functional … of uncultivated microbial lineages. Charting viral ‘dark matter’:   Viruses are abundant in the biosphere and …

… program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though … sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus cabanillasii DSM17905, Xenorhabdus …

… interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter as well as the development of novel methods to enable … A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et … reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs.  Nature Commun. 7:10476 Varghese NJ,  et al. …

… however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at … parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … 4 , 1895–1906 Roux, S. et al. (2019) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG).  Nature …

… genomic data and serving them to users via the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. Research Team    … The Integrated Microbial Genomes group is focused on:  Developing … on multicore and many core architectures with the ultimate objective of facilitating omics-based scientific …

… including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are … characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this tripartite …

… approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through … of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties …

… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics … 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Communications. 9 (1), 1-9 Schulz et al. … of life. Microbiome. 5 (1), 1-6 Schulz et al. (2017) Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system …

Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered surprises, adopted … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …