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… by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that … thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, …
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JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database … leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in …
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The machine “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 … Lab), has generated a more accurate phylogenetic tree tracking the evolution of Dothideomycetes fungi. The work … of Studies in Mycology . This work was enabled in part through JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) , as several …
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… “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers … issue of Nature, the study highlights the vast functional diversity of microbes by looking at protein function within … to a study in ISME Journal that identified flagella in the terrestrial ancestors of marine-dwelling Chloroflexota, as …
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… strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and … of HCR-FISH+FACS for selectively enriching low abundance microbial groups from complex natural communities. This type …
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… in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.” Through the JGI Community Science Program, Inskeep and McKay …
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