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… big the room is. A new study published online Oct. 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional … families known up until now, and identified many novel structure predictions,” said lead author on the paper Georgios … (IMG/M) database, they successfully crafted the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog. “We can now …
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Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists … developed an algorithm that a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to …
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Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging … as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her postdoctoral training in human microbiome research …
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… everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. In a recent … . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets generated from sampling sites around the … out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in …
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… around the world whose livelihoods depend on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 … the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production centers around two varieties: 95 percent of what is … All of these cotton lineages have genomes approximately 2.3 billion bases or Gigabases (Gb) in size, and are hybrids …
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… in a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental … and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the … called metagenome binning, we were able to reconstruct thousands of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …
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… new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive understanding of how a fundamental … the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is …
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… recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and … databases with large-scale transcriptome projects such as Expression Atlas and PPRD could help with … plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to …
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