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… wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial … Harnessing the collective power of more than 26,000 microbiome datasets, all accessible through the publicly …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which … set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific time or under specific … inconsistency makes interpretation and integration across studies difficult. Our Plant Gene Atlas resource addresses …

… how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what … eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the question, well, how are the microbes being affected … could become more sustainable through applications of microbiome science; our water quality, our water resource …

… to help develop the JGI’s community outreach efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome ecologist Shade became Director of Research at … data. She is also interested in reaching and engaging with new international collaborators and other scientific …

… stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps … researchers can develop high-throughput and high-resolution studies of interactions between host cells and viruses in …

… independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that … species include 29 newly-sequenced mycorrhizal genomes. With so many fungal  genomes , the team conducted a … assist researchers in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host …

… species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 … many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 encompasses four … out. The work on single cells was done in collaboration with scientists Tanja Woyke and Rex Malmstrom at the U.S. …

… to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral … scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides. To … on one or both sides by genes from the host organism. With the virus-host boundary clearly defined using …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are … of most ferns in many ways, including its large genome with numerous chromosomes. For a long time, this immense …

… of scientific policy, engaging in interactions with the scientific community at large. … 2021 LBNL … discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen . Science 331, 463-7. Visel A , Zhu Y, May D, Afzal V, …

… grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it can … allowed the research team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a large polyploid … climate resilient switchgrass. Aside from climate-related studies, researchers have also harnessed the switchgrass …

… the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in Walnut Creek, Calif. scheduled to begin a month later. In parallel with the intricate move preparations, the JGI has released … JGI supports, include JGI’s emerging leadership role in a Microbiome Data Science effort (pages 37-39) and the …