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… DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone and welcome back to a new session of Natural Prodcast. I’ve got two things I wanted to tell … First and foremost, our interview this week is with Professor Brian Bachmann from Vanderbilt University’s … which was a very early genome mining company, back when DNA sequencing of natural product pathways was hard and …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … that make it useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced algal genomes — … analyze gene expression from published experiments; study DNA methylation, which gives clues to how an organism may …

… Leveraging decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes … Nature . “We wanted to build a resource that demonstrates DNA sequence diversity, gene repertoire, and the phenotypic … Development (USAID) also supported the work.   Publication:  Morris, G.P., Harder, A.M., Healey, A.L.  et …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … giant viruses that belong to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the … expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses. Metabolic Reprogramming …

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … technologies available at JGI and EMSL such as DNA-SIP, Protein SIP, Flux Balance analysis with … The more the better. We want to put at least a microgram of DNA in the tube so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental United States. They …

… Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … attempts at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help … infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are virus fragments called spacers, that indicate repelled attempts to …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … of 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic relationships to evolution of genomic … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — …