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… answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not … said virologist Mart Krupovic of the Institut Pasteur, one of the study co-authors and an expert on inoviruses. …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … distinct approaches to identify both viruses and plasmids; one is marker gene-based, and the second is a neural network … Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of …

… regulation is critical to ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are … three distinct RNA polymerases; in bacteria there is only one type of RNA polymerase responsible for each gene. These … well as a sigma factor. While all bacteria encode at least one principal sigma factor responsible for transcription of …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who … the version 6 data updates and feature enhancements to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. … exercise helped us in filling or updating geographic information for nearly 1,100 samples,” said Reddy. Kaushal …

… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … and chemically-rich ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. … datasets are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal. The study,  published …

… polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. …

… large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the … Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes … B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, …