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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once … sequences. Using this workflow, the team combed through more than 5,000 data sets of RNA sequences … the NCBI and one of the senior authors on the paper, of the uncovered viral diversity. “Although the technical …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline … first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … I know I still have much to learn, I certainly feel much more advanced in my understandings than I would be at this …

… for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and enable researchers to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of …

… over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and assumed … Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives …

Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Program (ETOP). Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first … microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive understanding of how a fundamental … approximately half of which was generated by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single microbial and …