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Tomas Tyml
… uses traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within … microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary …
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Tracking the Origins of Methane-Producing Microbes
… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … Biohub, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user …
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Identifying the Microbial Cleanup Crew at a Superfund Site
… effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North Railroad Avenue Plume … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified …
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … as part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …
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Development of an integrated transcript sequence database and a gene expression atlas for gene discovery and analysis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)
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MIxS-HCR: a MIxS extension defining a minimal information standard for sequence data from environments pertaining to hydrocarbon resources
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Examining the cause of high inbreeding depression: analysis of whole‐genome sequence data in 28 selfed progeny of Eucalyptus grandis
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Genome-Wide Sequencing of 41 Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Mutated Lines Reveals Diverse Mutations Induced by Fast-Neutron Irradiation
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Amplicon sequencing of ice and water phytoplankton and bacterial communities during an extreme winter in a central Canadian great lake
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A Natural Mechanism Can Turbocharge Viral Evolution
… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … who led the research team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or …
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MGM Workshop at Fisabio Summer School 2025
… Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health … and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the human microbiome. The … devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by Natalia …
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and …
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