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… learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to … case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are … inoviruses with more than 3,400 different proteins, many linked to key functions such as virion structure and …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my first publication and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For Axel …

United States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to collect samples from across the country to standardize … into such bodies of water before heading out to bays and oceans. While river microbes are critical to monitoring and …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their … partner, either a eukaryotic microalga or a cyanobacteria, is known as the “photobiont.” Photobiont and … crops. And because lichens are dominant carbon and nitrogen fixers in alpine and high latitude ecosystems, …

… episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … Roger, when we were both postdocs at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Roger was splitting his time between Bill …

… the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and … P.-M.D is supported by the project Engineering Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA) currently funded …

… researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … oxygen deep below ground. These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the … DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the … as Adjunct Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the … , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied clades, …

… by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and collaborators work to create FAIR datasets to maximize returns on these … example, SIP experiments can show how soil microbes cycle nitrogen and carbon, or how freshwater ecosystems process …

… part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In … results revealed a striking capability of morel mycelium to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such … Compared to the high consumption and acquisition of carbon, nitrogen was not substantially exported from the exogenous …