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… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … what is now the  Community Science Program Functional Genomics proposal call, the JGI synthesized hundreds of  …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the … group at the JGI to further explore the ecological and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil … Blaise Pascal, France Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Université Blaise Pascal, France …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … “While computationally derived MAGs have been a revolutionary tool for microbiology, it's a call to balance,” …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her primary …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the … with a host – with 23,000 MAGs. Modeling A New Path for Metagenomics Researchers Building upon these resources, KBase, a …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … resource like this important to the field of plant genetics/genomics? Avinash: Having a better handle on the gene … allowed us to pinpoint and rank biologically relevant and evolutionarily conserved genes that could be potential …

… Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … Lavenstein Bendall and mentor Juan C. Villada, Ecology & Evolution of Self-Catalytic Introns across Earth’s … huge amounts of data. I was excited to work on fungal genomics and the fact that I got to do a project involving …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion … has begun to the June dedication event of the Integrative Genomics Building—the new home of the JGI and KBase in the …