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… it, viruses are most likely in your system and in your data, and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along … easier access to these viral genomes. The new database was called IMG/VR. It featured samples from different ecosystems …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … in professional development enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in …

… poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …