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… gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …

… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal …

… shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … chemical, where ordinary Carbon-12 atoms are swapped for the heavier, non-radioactive isotope Carbon-13, … a  Minimum Information for any Stable Isotope Probing Sequence (MISIP) . They differentiate between required …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … these RNA reads. “Currently, this is the largest JGI-sequenced fungal metatranscriptome yet,” said Igor …