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… new capabilities and resources to users through a BER data ecosystem.  A data ecosystem is a connected resource where … biology. The collaborations present exciting possibilities for scientific exploration, granting access to diverse … following ways: Data integration is critical to exploring research questions in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of … material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … a minority of cultivated bacteria, still persists to date. Research Team    … phylogenetic relationships and to provide valuable reference genomes in under-populated areas of the tree of …

… approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop … computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial … to a better understanding of microbial communities and ecosystem function.  The Environmental Genomics group also …

… inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as … high-quality, large-scale genomic data to advance microbial research that drives sustainable solutions in energy, agriculture and ecosystem management. …

… Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work … experimental approaches to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their … diversity and metabolic potential, with implications for energy production, environmental sustainability, and …

… Our research is focused on the discovery and characterization of … may impact microbiome structure and biogeochemical cycles. Research Team    … discovering and characterizing giant viruses, which possess genomes and particle sizes that rival those of cellular … insights into viral evolution and complexity, and encode for a treasure trove full of novel genes ready to be tapped …

… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, … they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our … host cell take-over by viruses, and attempts to evaluate ecosystem-level impacts of viral infections. The Viral …

… and curated data to support AI applications. In an effort to lead AI-driven genomic innovation to advance … and state-of-the-art sample processing.  Our Biodesign platform enables users to test hypotheses via designed and … then be functionally characterized.  Our metabolomics platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse …

… and associated viruses that all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, … better understand the plant-associated terrestrial world. Research Team    … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this …

… and a tool for predicting natural product structures from genomes. And I was writing grants furiously to try to get … biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean … similarity to a gene cluster with a known compound from the reference database: It must be identical. It must be that …

… Duncan: Yeah. I love actinomycetes. Dan Udwary: Tell us why. I mean, I know, but I think– Alison Takemura: I want to … there have been huge advances in both. The cool thing about genomes is you can, well, if your assembly is good, you can … chemical profile. Dan Udwary: Mm-hmm. Kate Duncan: When we generate that, that’s only a part of the picture. And you …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of … learned a lot so much history from this conversation about why the ocean was basically unexplored until the 70s, and … So, this was when we started saying, we have to have the genomes. We have to look at the full picture of these. And …