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… and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … JGI’s Microscale Applications group . Cells were randomly sorted, whole genome amplified, then sequenced and …

… issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … emerged and how it gave rise to the different pathways we see today is not only important to understand early life, … and for the JGI Annual Meeting closes on March 11, 2019. Novel Yellowstone archaeon belongs to Korarchaeota Drs. Luke …

… intended to accelerate basic research in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, advancing the federal initiative that seeks to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption by 20% within 10 … breakthroughs in basic science, and is exploring microbial-based synthesis of fuels beyond ethanol. …

… Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. … framework that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, … with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of the  IMG Plasmid Resource …