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Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … all across the world and lead to cell death and/or profound changes in the cell physiology during infection.” … the world. One expanded group is of viruses associated with bacteria; until now, most of the known RNA viruses have been …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The … to them from the genetic elements that scientists have found, e.g. plasmids and other mobile elements. Moreover, … with the JGI. Working together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science … uncovered a novel cellulose-degrading bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known to be … shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to set a reference for its …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are … “What we’re really doing is looking for a particular gene found in all inoviruses, and then checking the surrounding …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … different cells. Since that discovery, DGRs have been found in other viruses, bacteria, and archaea. But how widely distributed they are, …

Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support … genomic technologies and to understand genome function in bacteria. Since 2016, he has been the lead of the User … al. 2024. scMicrobe PTA: Near Complete Genomes from Single Bacterial Cells bioRxiv , 2024.01. 30.577819 2. Dicenzo et …