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… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these … The machine learning model in the iPHoP program creates a way of evaluating these different routes. To train the …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … strains are variable in their abilities. Zoomed out, what appears to be happening is a kind of movable feast being …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free … environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, making it nearly 30 times older than … with the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)’s Fungal and Algal Science Program and JGI users have been at the forefront of tackling this enormous challenge, assembling …

… 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …