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… fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … that lipids could act as a bridge of interkingdom communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development … learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria. PLoS Biology … of hypermutation in the global microbiome. Nature Communications 12, 3076. Roux et al., 2018. Minimum Information …

… The JGI’s Genomes OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital … The Science Since its launch 25 years ago, the  Genomes OnLine Database has matured from six projects on a … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley …

… consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced compared to that of a free-living …

… with a Rube Goldberg machine: surprising dependencies, intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of … most determined scientist.  Recent work in  Nature Communications takes on the challenge of understanding one of these … scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, … to DNA methylation analysis as well as improving metagenome assemblies. Q&A from the Webinar: Input & sequencing … library. Q: How much DNA/coverage is required for DNA modification detection? A:  DNA modification detection can only be …

… The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows machines to “learn” … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector … to vectorize protein sequences. Sevim is part of the JGI Genome R&D Group and is one of more than 100 scientists and …

… unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material directly from samples … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along … the world, finding over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of known viral …

… led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office …

… Biohub, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … and Verstraetearchaeota lineages. The archaeal genome was detected in samples collected by Stephen Quake’s … were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most of them …

… survival of the microorganisms that live there.  A  Communications Biology article highlights how one microalga … sequencing from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … changing salinity of the environment. ( The annotated algal genome is available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm data portal.) …