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… 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 …

… 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 …

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 …

He also aims to detect structural similarities in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s … high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these …

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

Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic …

… of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and … soils hold keys to tree health and carbon storage — skills that matter increasingly as the climate warms. However, … understand gene expression, and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.  The U.S. Department of …