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… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great … ” Anna Kucherova : “I got to learn about skills and tools that I’d never done before from my mentors. Also, …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … team sheds light on the range of archaeal symbiotic lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … opened vast windows into specific activities catalyzed by microbial communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of thousands of … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, …

… Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … and mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein … Tomas Tyml and Dr. Frederik Schulz with the New Lineages of Life Group at JGI. And we’ve been working on isolating and …

… Science Program gives researchers access to all kinds of sequencing, ‘omics and bioinformatics capabilities — and …