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For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles of constituent microbes, publishing their … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …

… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … a more complete picture of the taxonomic composition and metabolic potential of the communities studied. The datasets … communities, with possible applications in biogeochemical engineering,  biofuel production and more. … This work was …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our research team …

… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from …