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… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …