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… roles of microorganisms in regulating nutrient cycles, as well as gaining insights into potential applications they may have in a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 … 44%, is now available and  described November 9, 2020 in  Nature Biotechnology . Known as the GEM (Genomes from …

Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental … assembled by the JGI. From these assemblies, complete or near-complete population genomes were recovered—termed … and omics techniques enabled the team to closely study the nature of the Nanohaloarchaeota species’ symbiotic …

… approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls … room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of …

… as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and … a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a …

… subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the … yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently reported in Nature Communications. The work was co-led by Victoria … these environments. … This work received funding by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation (grant number G-2017-9955), the …

… seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and … can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and …

… , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance … of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research consortium led …

… made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. … 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic … be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology with JGI users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, …

… approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for … have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists at the U.S. … the sequence is most likely not an inovirus. But if these nearby genes are both short and novel, then that’s a very …

… for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP  New Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … richardii, or C-fern — came out in the September issue of Nature Plants . C-fern has a genome approximately three …

With a background in experimental and computational surface … of Brachypodium hybridum and its diploid progenitors. Nature Communications 11, 1. Gordon et al., 2017.  Extensive … distachyon pan-genome correlates with population structure. Nature Communications 8, 1. Goodstein et al., 2012. …