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Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.   … microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. … waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … energy and environmental challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths of the … to an all-time high. California homeowners witnessed how their once stout oaks, the anchors of their properties , …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and … and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their involvement; it’s something we wouldn’t have even …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable …

Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is … discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for terrestrial protists. These approaches enable novel …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … the mysteries concealed within the “dark” functional realm. Their focus sharpened on deciphering the intricate world of … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses (e.g., … paper was able to resolve the latter question, despite of their well-designed sampling and analysis of their data at …

Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and … 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals … influence viral-host interactions in three groups: cyanophages, bacteriophages, and giant algal viruses.  The …

This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest …