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… Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This …

… The Prokaryote Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and computational tools have … Finding the RNA virus snowflakes in the snowstorm of genomic data involved developing special computational …

… for an encyclopedia of reference genomes for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP proposals came in 2016 that would … “We currently have 19 genomes sequenced, 15 that are in sequencing or assembly right now, and eight more that we are … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. … Facility, and research scientist Frederik Schulz in Woyke’s Single Cells group had generated and analyzed single …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … past year, through programs including the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program and the DOE Office of Science …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get …

… Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … constraints, etc. of natural environments shape specific genomic signatures that could be used to hypothesize …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … different areas, beyond the project’s initial scope. Sequencing and culturing this vast collection of rumen … were able to provide colleagues at the Salk Institute with genomic DNA samples from Ruminococcus flavefaciens …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these “single guide” RNAs (sgRNAs) can be faulty. Without a good …