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… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar …

… when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … absorbable solution of sugars. But pollen contains plant cell walls, which have complex, branching chains of … yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses … host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used … sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of bacterial and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 …

… multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … at the JGI led the multi-omics analysis effort for a more complete picture. The team annotated the algal genome and …

… the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously … the roles played by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research … scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are … functions across different forests. Primary metabolism, cell activity, and fungal development looked quite alike for …

… Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple … To create this reference sequence, the team relied on bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs), vectors that can … JGI approved a CSP proposal from the international team to complete the first draft genome sequence of the polyploid …