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… ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact … system to study virus-host interactions. Approximately 150 archaeal viruses had been previously identified. The JGI …
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… the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and … JGI’s IMG Virus Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …
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… of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the … large-scale single cell genomics by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring … between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are …
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… scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the … analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. …
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