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… helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find … For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, … These organisms carry out important environmental processes like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane …

… Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study … and sequencing steps. Ultimately, researchers found their updated strategy required one-sixth the labor of the manual … effects of climate change. The team’s study used samples from the area immediately surrounding AMF’s long filaments, …

… with JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into …

… JGI Data Portal , a pilot download experience accessible from JGI’s plant portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal … the promise of an immediate benefit. The Data Portal — an updated alternative to the Genome Portal — seeks to more … JGI’s data. It includes several user-validated features and updated functionality, such as: The ability to select data …

… world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily … viruses that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like bacteria, this power is not surprising at all.  In … DNA or RNA contained in a sample that has been collected from any kind of environment you can think of – animal …

… and other chemicals. Summary Filamentous fungi are like handymen who show up at a job site for a task that … break down the components of plant cell walls, which range from simple to complex carbohydrates, and then convert them … genes. This first paper integrating multi-omics data from this JGI fungal ENCODE proposal was  recently published …

… the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle …