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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … repositories, as well as project data entered by external users. The Impact One of the significant challenges in maximizing genomic data usage is having the appropriate contextual information, or …

… leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … biogeochemical cycles. He provides his expertise to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the …

… exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that … Prospective users are always welcome to contact one of us about possible proposals if it’s different from what is on …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a … (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals have been accepted … the University of Minnesota is interested in learning more about the fungal endophytes of soybean and how they deter … to learn more about what is and is not modifiable in crops, which can help optimize crop improvements. Some of the …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate … bacterial diversity. The team conservatively estimated that about 42% of the bacterial diversity has no genomic …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. … moderate waters that have an average surface temperature of about 58° Fahrenheit (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to …

… reductase system, researchers could open avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes excel … miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the … contexts.  “That allows us now to really start thinking about the structure-function relationship. What could we do, …

… the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental approaches to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization of … 12, 3076. Roux et al., 2018. Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature …

… special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more than just a funny word. The 500 species described within the group … new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious disease. Streptomycetes are also abundant in soil and can … in the JGI Natural Prodcast podcast , where she talks about this community resource. ) “Most people study …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … as tough as it has been 10 years ago,” he said. “We thought about reconstructing gene regulatory networks, understanding … team is comparing five fungal species to answer questions about how they break down plant materials, which could be …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study microorganisms. Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within …