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Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … Nearly 200 Terabases of data are expected to be generated for the accepted proposals, said Susannah Tringe, JGI User … interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on mating habits of Mucoromycota fungi, and …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of …

Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … that discovery, DGRs have been found in other viruses, bacteria, and archaea. But how widely distributed they are, …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, …

JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … and repair themselves or eliminate waste. The Impact The bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms of the microbial …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: … Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since …