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… Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five … article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … and experimental approaches with the aim of eventually studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few …

… Trained on environmental data, a new JGI tool more accurately … existing methodologies developed for natural languages to study genomes,” Wang explained.  And since microbial genomes … Lab’s Computing Sciences Area to develop an efficient metagenome assembler capable of assembling many terabases of …

… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest … cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights … important cattle feed crop,” noted David Stelly, another study co-author at Texas A&M University. “This report …

…   On November 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in … characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene censuses.  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh ,  Metagenome Program lead, shone a spotlight on  ammonia …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper … the analysis of mobile genetic elements across all of the metagenomes. Learn more about her time at the JGI here . …