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… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … activities. Aside from being a key component of the marine food web base, they also feature in many nutrient …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of this … Ace Lake is covered in thick ice, with a combination of marine and freshwater below. This stratified mixture holds …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … an approach, the team says, that could be applied to other eukaryotes. …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … algal organisms sprung up in almost all branches of eukaryotes (organisms with a nucleus). In part because of … algal genomes can be incredibly complex and difficult to sequence and understand. A team of researchers led by Algal …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led …