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… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data … recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … data, which limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host prediction, …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   … of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of cloning and expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity … technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … expanded the known diversity of microbial genomes, accounting for nearly 49% of the total estimated bacterial …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences … four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. … sequencing or DAP-seq. The technology was developed by Ronan O’Malley , who leads the Sequencing Technologies …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than … — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean occurring within the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed to adapt … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… This year’s list features 6,900 researchers working in 21 fields.  … the JGI is sequencing thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes from diverse branches of the Tree of Life.  Its … non-polar oceans.   The reasons behind C-fern’s size and complexity revealed : C-fern is typical of most ferns in …