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… complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic … source of antibiotics. Indeed, these anaerobic fungi may be using these compounds for self-defense. But the compounds … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … of virus-host interactions opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, … this program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase … Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The …

… are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … unknown or uncertain function. These genes would allow the team to express this library of encoded proteins at high …

… view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and … been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … this work sets up protocols and pipelines that other teams can use around the world. These tools give researchers …

… and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living … and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental …

… be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … (FICUS) initiative through an award to MBD and MBS (#2582) and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and … or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …