Search

… some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called … rely on dissolved zinc to photosynthesize. Thomas Mock, a marine microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …

… being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from metagenomes is challenging and … contiguous sequences (contigs) of proviruses flanked on one or both sides by genes from the host organism. With the …

… nutrient cycling and carbon storage. For example, the marine algae  Emiliania huxleyi, a microeukaryote, forms … viruses. This review highlights four of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses in sequence data is … reference genome, to sift for snippets of giant viruses in metagenomes. This has been useful in marine environments, …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic … in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial … Halorubrum lacusprofundi from Deep Lake and Rauer 1 Lake, one of the lakes in the nearby Rauer Islands. Additionally, …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed …