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… was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools … from infecting viruses and phages. In the event of a new infection, the microbes use the genetic information … the IMG/M system with its large collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of …

… Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. …

… tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental approaches to link viruses to their … knowledge of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research … and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. …

… The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much … number of microbial genomes. That means that those viruses accessed many more potential microbial cells or hosts. This …

… a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, the new approach detected inoviruses in 3,609 (6 percent) of the … but we are limited in our predictive methods to discover new anti-CRISPRs,” said Adair Borges, a graduate student in …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors … factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro transcription assay … factors is the most straightforward application of the technology, in principle, RIViT-seq can be applied to any …