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… of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants … for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene that way,” said Kellogg, a senior … crops because it leads to reduced harvest yields. Over thousands of years, farmers have selected for cereal …

… Science . The following guest piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow in the JGI Microbiome Data Science Group led by Kyrpides. Since early 2020, people all over the world have been forced to confront the awesome … authors provide a brief history of the field, describe the most commonly used methods, and discuss some of the current …

… . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now …

… and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. … of macroalgae as an environmentally sustainable and cost-effective biomass for production of renewable fuels and …

… untargeted analysis pipelines.  Beyond profiling over 10k samples/year, Dr. Louie and her team work with … as stable isotope probing (SIP) to assess metabolite turnover, DNA-SIP for helping identify active micro-organisms … Kuftin AN, et al. Mass Spectrometry for Natural Product Discovery. 2020.  Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of … team used proteomics, genomics and transcriptomics to discover another advantage these fungi wield: the capacity to … into more collaborations. One of O’Malley’s former postdocs, Kevin Solomon — now an assistant professor at the …

… cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic … was enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program. For most months each year, Ace Lake is covered in thick ice, with a combination of marine and …

… activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and … tetranucleotide frequencies, and an area’s environment hosts particular organisms and metabolisms. This implies that … update the Metagenome Stability Diagram. The tool is hosted on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing …

… Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind …

… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics … motivated me to think outside of simply looking for jobs/postdocs in industry or academia. It was also a great … one of your favorite things about your JGI internship? My most favorite parts of the internship were the open and …

… themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can … They can also affect ecosystems by killing other cells. Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge … for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other tools have focused on identifying only specific …

… to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are … hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or hydrogenotrophic (most common); methylotrophic; and, acetoclastic. All three … 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most of them archaea. The Quake lab had previously …