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… microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … DNA could be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… collaboration is available for licensing. The Science In  Nature Communications , researchers describe a … produced by living organisms. The collaboration between the JGI and the Foundry on this project highlights an  ongoing … separating urine from other waste streams and recovering resources that could be used for products such as agricultural …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to … described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms … a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used sequencing methods for the first time … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew …