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… mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity … genomes, particularly from incredibly complex soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how these … with >90% completeness. These results, noted JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe , suggest that extracting …

… In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute … and capabilities we offer JGI users to help advance their science. … a vision for future technical JGI directions for DOE User science. … of Regents Working Group on “NIH Comparative Genomics Resource” 2021-  Co-Chair, “Advances in Genome Biology & …

… date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can … User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The abundance of fungal … technologies for producing both reference genomes and epigenomics, researchers are unwrapping complex mechanisms of …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … nutrient cycling, or carbon sequestration. Summary Existing programs use a variety of approaches to match a virus with a …

… on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from …

… it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  …