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… the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, … their expertise in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data … and Simon Roux. Kyrpides is part of another project led by Owen White at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Both …

… has released its newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Innovating Genomics to Serve the Changing Planet (download a copy at … and environmental remediation—all priorities identified by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research … might contribute to the emergence of new pathogens. “ By sharing our vision broadly across Berkeley Lab, with …

… core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and … their environment. Many secondary metabolites are produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

… mutant library in Chlamy, as the alga is colloquially known by researchers. A missing gene from this mutant library … group, one of the four proposals selected is led by Eoin Brodie of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … omics and computational resources with JGI’s cutting-edge genomics, DNA synthesis and complementary capabilities. …

… directly measure environmental or biological samples (like cell media or lake water) without doing a metabolite … analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics proposal calls, projects can request up to 50 polar … resources. Q:  Where can I get information for funding by JGI? A: The JGI is not a funding organization. Rather, it …

… have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on the range of archaeal … superphylum of extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While … growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In …

Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, … a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The work was led …

July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … inoviruses, which are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic infection … are stealth agents that can enter and exit through the cell membrane without lysing the bacterial host. They can …

The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical labelling approach. The Impact … nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This action triggers subsurface carbon …

… last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. … Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress response by comparing how it responded to being moved to a … several points in time to assess nutrient concentration and cell death. Immediately upon transfer, the experimental …