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… deep-sea hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in …

… rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden … more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more …

… Biology JGI Co-chair, People Stewardship committee (2020-2022) UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Postdoctoral Award …

… lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it …

… methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, … an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the … of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes …

… from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated … Earth’s microbiomes. Biotechnol . doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0718-6. Wood-Charlson EM, et al. 2020. The National Microbiome … Collaborative: enabling microbiome science. Rev. Microbiol. 18:313-314. Roux S, et al. 2019. Cryptic inoviruses are …

… of river health diagnostic systems to monitor for and identify land use or water quality changes. Summary Rivers are key … Partial support by US National Science Foundation awards DEB1840243, EAR1836768 and DEB1457794. Funding support also was provided …

… they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all …

… databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called … 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 inovirus-like sequences compared to … you’ve found the right features that you can use to identify the inoviruses.” Overhauling the Perception of Inovirus …