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Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … JGI researchers walked students through the processes of DNA sequencing, metagenome assembly, and even an …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … all over the world, including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 computationally identified viral … dynamics in soil microbiomes could allow for more accurate ecosystem modeling. In a different vein, …

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 …

… 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 …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … and giant viruses belonging to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus … expanded 10-fold, offering the opportunity to refine the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses and revealing metabolic …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … analysis of the AT enzyme family, the JGI provided DNA synthesis capabilities to enable functional testing of … integral to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … comparable database, and has the capability to store and accurately display eukaryotic and viral BGC sequences. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have … analysis improve the genome’s accuracy, and increase its length by 29.5 Megabasepairs. 2017: Pan-genome analysis of …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … which are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … isotope to it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or …