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… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from … to address pressing energy and environmental scientific challenges. In Nature Microbiology , a team led by longtime … the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) Challenge, a competition launched in 2015 by a community …

… Learn more about JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced fungal genomes, omics … Do you accept oomycetes to be proposed for genome sequencing, or only “true fungi”? A(nswer): Our focus is on fungi, … analyses. Average times for different JGI products can be found at  …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … known as Mcr. Until recently, the Mcr gene cluster was found only in the archaeal lineage Euryarchaeota; recent … When they analyzed the reconstructed metabolisms, they found that one of the MAGs contained the complete set of …

… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In their analysis, they found the salinity changes led the algae to express genes …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Switchgrass is a native, shrubby grass that can … has a large polyploid genome, which means most genes are found as multiple copies across the chromosomes. In a …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a … ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from making a bacterial artificial chromosome library to long-read …

… JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary relationships between methanogenesis, … “Distribution of predominant high-temperature archaeal and bacterial lineages in Yellowstone National Park,” as well as …

… PPE or Personal Protective Equipment is worn to minimize exposure to hazards that can cause workplace injuries and illnesses.  PPE or Personal Protective … fully enclose the entire foot. Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues missing elements of …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these enzymes have evolved distinctly from both …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of bacterial and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 … then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 hosts they found, how prevalent in the mat are their viruses? The …