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Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … producers fueling our planet’s biogeochemical cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

… outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy … part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems models, … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… in their hunt for anaerobic fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … into expected proteins. That work was done in collaboration with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), …

… are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user … Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge within an ecosystem. They influence the composition of the …

Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the … patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and …

Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep … data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector representations of …

… inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of …

Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots …

… of their bacterial host to colonize plant roots, as with Arabidopsis thaliana. Using a coupled experimental and … 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002860 … Postdocs: Margot Bezrutczyk (JGI Postdoc) Lamprinos Frantzeskakis (JGI Postdoc) Interns: Katsuma Yonehara (Tokyo University) …

… carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are … These resources would provide the research community with the ability to address questions such as sphagnum’s … research results, building on the availability of genomic information from two distinct environments, strengthen the …