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Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of this … observations regarding the contributions of algae and viruses to the ecosystem were noted, but require further …

… samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, … with names — but not doors — and robots handle a bunch of benchwork. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and pharmaceuticals. The team at Merchant’s lab also discovered the existence of polycistronic genes within … in Merchant’s lab who is first author on an upcoming paper, discovered that in the original strain, a protein called …

… focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to … Goodstein currently leads the Plant Comparative Analysis group, and is responsible for genome annotation, comparative … and the wider plant science community. Dr. Goodstein’s group also develops and maintains the Phytozome Plant …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from … metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and search through …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … called terpenoids, which have a structure belonging to a group of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important … would also act on native substrates to produce additional novel antibiotics. Summary The zealexins are chemically …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). BGCs make diverse …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group. Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of … of Texas-Austin. Rambo will be studying the influence of viruses on carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. The work …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … Science Program, which started in 2012, and what they’ve discovered through their collaborations. One review article … in establishing larger-scale research projects in our group. It’s enabled us to accelerate gene, enzymes, and …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to … to peta-bases, and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … dating over a billion years old. It’s an insanely diverse group of organisms that include some delicious additions to … band together to build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the genomes helped to reinforce Charles …