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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling … So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put … Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in … way scientists study microorganisms. Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, …

… expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of … the way we currently isolate and extract viruses,” said the study’s lead author Simon Roux, a JGI research scientist in … search tool combed through more than 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 …

… JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new … Pascal, France Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Université Blaise Pascal, France …

… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately … existing methodologies developed for natural languages to study genomes,” Wang explained.  And since microbial genomes … Lab’s Computing Sciences Area to develop an efficient metagenome assembler capable of assembling many terabases of …