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… may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in … viruses is just the beginning. “I often say that just identifying a sequence as viral is not even half the story.” Neri … of efficient, automated approaches to analyze and classify sequence data at this scale is essential.”   … The U.S. …

Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is …

… proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold, offering the opportunity to refine the phylogenetic …

… (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes … bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. (2021) Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the … Nat Microbiol . 6(7):960-970. Nayfach S, et al. (2021) CheckV assesses the quality and completeness of …

… the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more … the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over … genome size range from 13.8-29.3 kilobases (Kb) to 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly …

… giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated … viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, … filter the data for the major capsid protein (MCP) to identify NCLDV viruses. JGI researchers previously applied this …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, …

… them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

… across multiple genomes.  eLife 11, e78526. Li et al., 2021.  Plant Pan-Genomics Comes of Age . Annual Review of …