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… is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, … Exploring the fascinating world of giant viruses, which challenge our … Understanding the complex relationships between microbes and …

… strengthens -omics technologies at the JGI by identifying the actual molecules present in an environment that influence system behavior.  Through this identification, metabolomics enables functional genome … Find more details on the instrumentation we use and our …

… for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … colleagues. Aaron is doing some cool stuff with cool bacteria that I’m fascinated to learn more about. He works … of their synthases so that we can start to use the DNA sequence to predict or just understand better the language …

… Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 users that predominately come from the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely … Industry Partners access to our vast set of resources:  JGI sequencing technologies include scaling technologies and …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … And a lot of us moved on to work in simpler systems, like bacteria, where we figure we can make more progress faster, … took an approach that was kind of a simplified metagenome sequencing approach to pick this system apart.  DAN:  And …

… Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … before– or kind of around about when the first genome sequencing was done. But natural products– marine natural … biology classes in undergrad, but my PhD was an actinobacteria. And I tell all my students this now, but when I …

… Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational … (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include the sequencing and comparative analysis of thousands of archaeal …

… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with … delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size … a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the prokaryote. “I …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of … things, because a lot of what we do at JGI in terms of the sequencing that we do is very people-disconnected, and … find some interesting leads and need help with isolation or identification of those compounds. But again, for the …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring generalizable technologies to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no …