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Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. In the June 24, 2022, issue of the journal Science, Volland and colleagues, … Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the … space that they occupy on a global scale, it’s less than 1% of the coastal area worldwide. But when you then look at …

… a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental … Using this massive dataset, Nayfach clustered the MAGs into 18,000 candidate species groups, 70% of which were novel … BGCs in  IMG/ABC (Atlas of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters) by 31%. ( Listen to this JGI Natural Prodcast episode on genome …

… longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts that …

Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team set out to characterize the … targets for plant improvement. Surprisingly, about 16 to 56 percent of plant genes are poorly characterized, …

… (in this case, a plant’s complete genetic makeup) and 10 common gardens. We discovered that 8X populations have …

… page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in Cell , a team led by researchers at Tel Aviv … resulted from a three-way collaboration that began in 2019, recalled Uri Neri of Tel Aviv University, one of the …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as … Deputy post by  Nick Everson , the person Ray hired in 2007 to serve as JGI’s Business Manager. In 2012, Nick jumped …

… least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of … the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center (GACRC) …

… that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most …

… giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated … viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, … as a barcode to sift out virus fragments, reconstructing 2,074 genomes of large and giant viruses. More than 50,000 …

… and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual Community … Lab). They were selected through peer review from 41 full proposals out of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many …