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… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … etc. of natural environments shape specific genomic signatures that could be used to hypothesize environmental …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical …

… On February 8, 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Environmental Molecular … FY2024 EMSL-JGI FICUS collaborative proposal call . Letters of Intent for the joint call are due March 7, 2024. The FICUS call allows researchers to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization from the JGI and …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … gene based surveys allow researchers to use signature genes, rather than an entire reference genome, to …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …