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In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the genome, researchers were able to pinpoint …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … systems target infectious agents like viruses and plasmids. First,  Ca . Altiarchaeum had CRISPR-Cas systems targeting  …

… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … by NIH Common Fund grant 1U24HL175772-01. This is not the first time Kyrpides and his colleagues have demonstrated how … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a … approach to isolate cellulose-degrading microbes. They first bound single microbes to fluorescently labeled … pools, followed by whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer through the Biotech Partners … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus … a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used sequencing methods for the first time to comprehensively …