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… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, and they range …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an algorithm that a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in networking … able to work with state of the art technology and greenhouses/grow chambers has been an incredible experience. I feel …

… the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought … have a number of initiatives across several different campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us that we try and continually replicate.”  On the other …

… is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). Colder waters nearer the poles, however, tend to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a nucleus). These photosynthesizing eukaryotes, or algae, form the …

… microbial ecosystems. These communities harbor tens of thousands of different organisms who all consume different … to get all of the information that SIP offers, researchers must take on a fairly time-intensive process. The isotope … take hours to months, followed by weeks of tricky, laborious lab work to analyze samples from one experiment. Starting …

… carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … work sets up protocols and pipelines that other teams can use around the world. These tools give researchers a way to …

… 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to … metabolisms that function with a toolkit of enzymes. It’s useful to differentiate these enzyme tools into two groups: …

Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of Science User Facility. She took special interest in it because she credits her high school teacher with inspiring her …

… an array of experiments at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … University of California at Berkeley, as well as other DOE user facilities — Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … concealed within the “dark” functional realm. Their focus sharpened on deciphering the intricate world of protein …