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… 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … 2018, Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes. Nature Biotechnol . 39(5):578-585. Nayfach S, et …

… crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model … about a multi-year study his student conducted involving fungal rust pathogen resistance. Just as the common gardens … switchgrass has become an important species whose complex genomes are helping breeders understand how they can boost …

… and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics …

… move toward characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal … researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor Grigoriev took readers on …

… factors and determine their binding sites across multiple genomes. Computational prediction of heterologous …

… to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the … and already available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. Nikos Kyrpides and  … consortium, they  conducted a large-scale comparison of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi …

… genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied … with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: fungal researcher Jason Stajich of the University of …

… results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ … method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only …

Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing protocols so …