Search

… symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  … the microorganisms had a close relationship. Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. … Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National …

… matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon … and the University of Vienna  reported recovering draft metagenome-assembled genomes for seven novel species of …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re … work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

… dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , … Scientific Achievement , and was among the Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke is the second JGI …

Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … (IMG/M) database, they successfully crafted the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog.  “We can now … we’ve already defined.  “A huge percentage — around 30–50% of the protein families that we knew so far — still does …

Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity … to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department … art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the world, playing key roles in regulating …