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… working on harder organisms, with the kinds of challenges that usually lead to surprises and really great discoveries! And Eric’s done an awesome job, in that respect. One of the natural product families we talk a … which is highly unusual, as it’s generally considered that it’s the bacteria living in association with …

… genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct … Roux, S., Krupovic, M., Daly, R.A. et al. Cryptic inoviruses revealed as pervasive in bacteria and archaea across …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … Lab) uncovered a broad diversity of large and giant viruses that belong to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses … of large and giant viruses to any known virus lineage. “Getting complete, near complete, or partial giant virus …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host … These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This …

… the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science … technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … viral genomes . The Impact The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as carbon, …

… all the way to the end, then you’ve probably heard me say that the Joint Genome Institute is a “Department of Energy … going to hear about are some more of the details around that. Specifically, we’re going to talk about JGI’s … the case. You’re not going to have a greater chance of getting approved because you requested only 100 kb versus …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part …

… is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …