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… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses …

… Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from … Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her …

… Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … and optimized by Ronan O’Malley, who leads the JGI’s Sequencing Technologies group. DAP-seq allowed the team to …

… with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or … DNA sequencing data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms …

… Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … to finish, i.e., QC to separation to library sequencing and assembly. Like others, our turnaround time has been impacted …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users … chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of … This work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … energy, using a process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     Over … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two … of the pathways.  ALISON: Karolina studies these CAM-C3 hybrids. KAROLINA:  Some of these hybrid genotypes that I …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the … delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial … Facility, and research scientist Frederik Schulz in Woyke’s Single Cells group had generated and analyzed single …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The … photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a century-and-a-half of lichen research, many of the …