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…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are … foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are … do so, they compared samples collected from an aquifer in 2012 and 2018 against a biofilm sample collected in 2018. …

… to the second episode of the Natural Prodcast. This is part 2 of our “primer” episode, so if you ended up here somehow … through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, …

The guest we have this week is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School … I think on COVID that we’re getting ready to submit for publication and have found some interesting hits for that as … I think could be leveraged better could be perhaps to take deeper looks at the interactions that organisms have, not …

… are open to both domestic and international applicants from any institution type and at any career stage. … users are able to work with Berkeley Lab.  However, users from certain countries (Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Syria), … proposals are subject to JGI policies on Data Release and Publication .   Except for applicants to the CSP New …

… real legends of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill … started looking at things and doing chemical structures, learning a little bit about things. And that was the … of the cell. You can see cartoons where you’ll have the chromosomes pulling apart during cell division. And that’s …

… specific milestones, either by automated emails or emails from your Project Manager. Your Project Manager will also … access your data, share with collaborators, and coordinate publication with JGI scientists. Synthetic DNA constructs …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. … case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are … now overhauls our perception of this virus group – from minor curiosities they become a prominent component of …

Natural Products conference, which took place last January 2020 in San Diego. San Diego, of course, is the “home turf” … the University of Hawaii and moved there in the early ’60s from Berkeley to work on this new budding field of marine … in a microalgae. There were four genes there. Not like a bacterial gene cluster, but they were still clustered in the …

… firstly set up a baseline process. And then really dig deeper into both aspects of the strain, as well as the … we’ve done a lot on our spinosyns. We had a huge amount of learnings to apply to this second product, the UK2A base … help the Society grow. And so I’ve been the chair of the publications committee for the last, what is it now, five …

… interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to do real journalism, and we wish her all the … We don’t want to get a proposal that’s just asking for 20 microbial genomes. That is not a good fit for our annual … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements … entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are …