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… planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers around the … Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI … Over the years more than 3,400 genomes have been sequenced from curated DSMZ isolates, for which quality DNA …

… Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility … California, Merced, and Kevin Solomon of the University of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity … is particularly interested in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. …