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Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … and Ambrose Monell Foundations, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada …

…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These … biogeochemical cycles. Additional efforts in metabolic engineering and biocatalyst design will target sustainable … “Many of these projects are large in scale and involve multiple collaborators, bringing together diverse expertise …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to … places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of particular interest. Matt also supports various CSP and FICUS user projects for the Metagenome Program. …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.       Despite advances in sequencing …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and …

… compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … repository of BGC sequences that come pre-annotated using multiple commonly used sequence analysis tools is a means of …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms … … SAR324 on IMG/M Data portal … BBTools is a suite of fast, multithreaded bioinformatics tools designed for analysis of …

… within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and … into stemming methane-emissions as well as efficient engineering of biofuels. Since 2010, the JGI has partnered … chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial …