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… include exploration of the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of … and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include … of host-virus interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter as well as the development of novel …
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… conditions, with only a small portion of the biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) being expressed. The program works to … uncover these hidden biochemical resources by exploring the genetic pathways responsible for their synthesis. The … experimental approaches to explore the synthesis and function of these biologically significant compounds. By …
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… of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use … We then investigate the coding potential to find novel functions that may impact microbiome structure and …
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… come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are …
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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text … sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. Making connections between the structures and …
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… genomics existed. This is before we’re even thinking of genes and connecting genes to molecules, which is something … systems. No one was, at that time, really working with microbes from the ocean. So I felt there was a wonderful … entities. So, you know, we’re often limited by the native function of enzymes and what they’re able to produce, you …
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… integrated context. IMG/M provides tools for analyzing the functional capability of microbial communities based on … host taxonomy, conjugation potential, antibiotic resistance genes, and ecosystem information. … The IMG/VR database … available sequenced algal genomes and genome annotations generated by the JGI and by others. The web portal allows …
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… to find info about the CSP, FICUS, New Investigator and Functional Genomics calls. For my audience, all of these … I think for Natural Prodcast, I think the question that generally comes up that people come to me asking like is– … where smaller proposals may be a fit. Still not 20 many microbes. We still we work in plates, right? We’re a high …
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… product reports on the evolution of genome mining and microbes with Mohammad Alanjary and Tilmann Weber to be a … of it. So it wasn’t only chemistry or only biochemistry or genetics. It was also ecology. It was also evolution. It was … have to go through publications to get proteins, and their functions, and all that stuff. And that’s the most laborious …
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