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… and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What … inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, …

… in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to help train the … samples to the JGI for sequencing.  While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria sequenced from the metagenomic soil samples from the four …

… about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those sequenced, roughly half of all genes have completely unknown … for prediction of fungal lifestyles based on genome sequences.” The Fungal Knowledge Gap The fungal kingdom … species lies an even thornier problem: The genomes already sequenced don't adequately capture the vast nature of fungal …

… shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it … candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a … of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference …

… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …