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… filter the data for the major capsid protein (MCP) to identify NCLDV viruses. JGI researchers previously applied this … As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this …
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… common bean’s nutritional value, providing anywhere from 10-30% of daily protein requirements. It is also an essential … a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, … iron content and have a longer shelf-life — up to four years. Work is now underway to transfer the trait into other …
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… lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it … biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from …
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… done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super …
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… a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to … big the room is. A new study published online Oct. 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and …
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… are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying and breeding varieties that have high productivity … differences rather than just observing them. Can we quantify them? Can we tie them to the genome? We can use common … set up these gardens, we have them to study for a number of years. And that’s a real benefit for the research program.” …
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Germany. The BGC Repertoire in Actinobacteria Over the years more than 3,400 genomes have been sequenced from curated DSMZ …
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… rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden … more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, …
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… databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called … 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 inovirus-like sequences compared to … By the numbers, the new approach detected inoviruses in 3,609 (6 percent) of the 56,868 microbial genomes and 2,249 …
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… bacterial RiPP biosyntheses. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 2023 Feb 17;50(1):kuad005. Otani H, Udwary DW, Mouncey NJ. … of transcriptional machineries. Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 17;13(1):3502. Udwary DW, Otani H, Mouncey NJ. New keys to unlock the …
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