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With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

… uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from … to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … 673–688 Vyshenska et al. 2023. A standardized quantitative analysis strategy for stable isotope probing metagenomics. …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s … own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … and improve results. Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel …

… in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

… researcher who identifies and analyzes novel clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions …

Arianna is an affiliate research who explores the effect of aquatic protistan taxonomy and genetic diversity on … physiology and ecosystem functioning through a combination of transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic, and metagenomic …