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… because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along … 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes database to include a …

… to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in … Susannah Tringe, JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group. Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the …

… Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …