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On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … but computationally costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale … A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators.  PNAS 116 (41), … Nature Comm 10(1) 1-10 Schulz, F. et al. 2018. Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Comm . 9 (1), …

… was applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. … specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

… at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …