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… JGI’s community outreach efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome ecologist Shade became …

… and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the … what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only 10 times larger. And … to take a more global look at giant viruses by capturing genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental …

… the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The Program aims to better understand the … workflows that allow researchers to easily analyze viral genomes. This includes (i) classifying viruses into groups … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for …

… between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate …

… and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the … Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched … et al (2014) MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes.  Nucleic Acids Res. 42(1):D699-704. Read B et al. …

… genomics. Fungi can be better understood through reference genomes, but unfortunately there are not many available to … study. This is because most fungal clades have no reference genomes. It’s a key problem to solve because fungi are very … and analysis at the JGI to help produce novel fungal genomes. They manually curate data to connect to the newly …

… , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense collection of publicly accessible … is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine in Iron … and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment . Nature. 2004. 428, 37–43 …

… results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ … method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only …