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… potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and medicine, the vast majority in, on, and … remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the … and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for …

… viruses are a reservoir of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which …

… 5mC abundance and the abundance of specific 5mC methyltransferase (MTase) variants. Using new sequencing technologies for producing both reference genomes and …

… A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs … framework that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, …

… team says that this experiment outlines a roadmap that is transferable to other systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users outside the realm … these sugars. To demonstrate the versatility of this novel technique, Alper and his team also applied this method to a …

… The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples collected from acidic … are of interest for their potential use in number of biotechnological applications. Molecular biology has benefited … thermophiles, stabilizing the polymerase chain reaction technology that enables researchers to generating thousands …

… assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all … the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These applications include crop … Sarah Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, reported that high quality genome references are …