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… archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … Lake Lanier were of particular interest. Sifting Out and Reconstructing Virus Genomes Much of what is known about the …

… Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover … metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, … technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea … variability in what types of microorganisms were found at each site and the role they fulfilled suggest that specific … Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

… Nucleocytoviricota , these giant viruses boast larger genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of … virus infects a bloom of  E. huxleyi , it bursts the algal cells like water balloons, releasing vast amounts of calcite … than bacteria. A fourth option for virus discovery is reconstructing metagenome-assembled genomes through …