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… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen … 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for …

… an array of microbial life. By leveraging massive user-generated datasets at the JGI and other publicly available … methodologies developed for natural languages to study genomes,” Wang explained.  And since microbial genomes are … the data it is trained on,” Wang said. “Most models rely on reference genomes to train genome foundation models. …

… ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … but also surprisingly active. In viruses, DGRs appear to generate diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene …

… Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. … samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to … at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her …

… hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in … move toward characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal … to (meta)genomics, and at least one of the papers they reference should be hot off the press. She tells prospective …

… Nucleocytoviricota , these giant viruses boast larger genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The … viruses in sequence data is read-mapping: using giant virus reference genomes to search for giant viruses in metagenomic …

…   The Joint Genome Institute's Biodesign Platform capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence into … JGI Biodesign platform enables users to validate hypotheses generated from mining genomic data by designing and … BOOST provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination and Golden Gate …