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… metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over … approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses in sequence data is read-mapping: using giant virus reference genomes to …

… and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for …

… for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers … (39°C/102°F). The Impact One of the challenges in understanding wild populations is that tests to find … and improve functional annotation to harness the genomic data. Reported October 8, 2018, in Nature Genetics , a team …

… trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of DNA … this “ data tsunami ,” as Kathy Yelick of the Computing Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … They may also provide a basic understanding of the roles microbiomes play in determining the behavior of the physical …

… sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research … from metagenomes. This is a critical step toward better understanding the impact of viruses upon microbes. A … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). JGI is a DOE Office of Science user facility at Berkeley Lab.   …

… (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto Nuevo is, historically, a fishing … much to learn, I certainly feel much more advanced in my understandings than I would be at this stage without the … a strong role in my career interests post-Ph.D. in the sciences. “ Ul-Hasan was one of two UC Merced graduate …

… discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis.  This is a continuation of the previous … lineages in biogeochemical cycles and beyond, as well as microbial symbioses. We aim to foster discussions centered … to capture, define, quantify, and functionally characterize microbial diversity. The Symposium will also focus on …