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… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … the way we currently isolate and extract viruses,” said the study’s lead author Simon Roux, a JGI research scientist in …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem … workshops. Of common interest is the method development to study active sites or single cells in their functional …

… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth … biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research scientist at Roche Vitamins, Inc. in New Jersey and DSM …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be … Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the environmental …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … much less those considered large and giant. In a recent study  published in the journal  Nature , a team led by … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean … T. cacao has now been completed and released by HudsonAlpha scientists, with the help of funding from Mars Wrigley. The … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … publicly available metagenome data provided by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these 10 …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. … The research teams opted to collaborate on a single study, with Matheus Carnevali and Schulz sharing co-first …