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… DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this … And it actually was jumping onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that … like a nice summer day in Seattle I think this was like 2013 or 2014. And antiSMASH — I know you’ve interviewed Marnix …

… The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural environments. This work … and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several experimental approaches to … The Metagenome Program focuses on the high-throughput sequencing of …

… The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to enhance our understanding of genome science, organisms, and ecosystems at the molecular … mass spectrometry-based methods to analyze metabolites from a wide range of biological and environmental samples — …

… While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been assembled and reported from metagenomes, our understanding of the impacts of these … and ultimately predict the main viral impacts in these microbiomes. … the range of virus-host interactions occurring in microbiomes, these omics data must be complemented with …

… and analysis techniques to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including … driven prioritization lists for laboratory isolation and genome sequencing of underexplored bacterial and archaeal … catalog : Beyond minimal draft and improved draft microbial genomes the program offers single-cell sequencing, …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the … recruit new talent for biosciences.  Adopt-a-Genome has: ~20 faculty from institutions across the country Efforts in ongoing … A primary purpose of this project is to bring educators from a broad range of disciplines up-to-speed with some of …

… in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …

… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop … computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial …

… the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in …

… projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring … agricultural productivity. Research spans diverse areas — from understanding how terrestrial plants and phytoplankton … improve the accuracy of functional predictions and speed up genome analysis. Additionally, the Plant Program is …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … Metatranscriptomic information was also generated. The 3.8 trillion bases or Terabases of sequencing data, along …

… Exploring the fascinating world of giant viruses, which challenge our understanding of … discovering and characterizing giant viruses, which possess genomes and particle sizes that rival those of cellular … new lineages and functional capabilities in the microbial world. …