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… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to accessing and using geNomad, the JGI partnered with the NMDC to integrate … to become an essential tool for researching global viral diversity. geNomad has already been downloaded thousands of …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … scan for those snowflakes, or RNA virus sequences. Using this workflow, the team combed through more than 5,000 … the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us is vast, and we …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … positive change in science.” Mentor: Zhong Wang Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging … Project: “ Investigating metabolic network of symbiosis using genome-scale metabolic models ” Pedro Antonio Perez …

… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of … provides training and scientific contributions—including sequencing services and analysis—to participants. Over the … involving academic faculty and researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has … was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and the evolution of …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific … of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could …