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… on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The … viruses in sequence data is read-mapping: using giant virus reference genomes to search for giant viruses in metagenomic … researchers to use signature genes, rather than an entire reference genome, to sift for snippets of giant viruses in …

… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes … (2021-67019-34608) to M.J.W. FTICR-MS analyses were performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for …

… and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … of metallic protein that no one’s ever had a structure of before,” said Crysten Blaby-Haas, a research scientist at the … has some amazing resources and people — not just the instrumentation — but the experts we were able to work with on …

… Nearly 200 Terabases of data are expected to be generated for the accepted proposals, said Susannah Tringe, JGI User … they also feature in many nutrient cycles. Thus, having reference  Chaetoceros genomes would provide more … The proposal targets the CSP focus area in plant microbiomes, as well as those in inter-organismal …

… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is … and metatranscriptome sequences, as well as individual reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its …

… -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his graduate student … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field … initiative called Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) . Through FICUS, the researchers …

… addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using … have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental …

… students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE … Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to … the supervision of their mentors, they were responsible for all steps of the experiment from growing and inoculating …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was … approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi families — essentially, the foundation for an encyclopedia of reference genomes for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP …

… of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut … , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …