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Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is … sequencing allows researchers to study the entire genetic makeup of these communities via whole genome …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy … 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for … postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses. Metabolic Reprogramming a …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have … and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … pin down.  Photosynthesis appears to have a lot in common with a Rube Goldberg machine: surprising dependencies, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat … and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material directly from samples sidesteps these …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many …