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… in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.” Through the JGI Community Science Program, Inskeep and McKay …
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Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic diversity that would help narrow down potential sources of …
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… recognized Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques including single-cell genomics and …
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… with an email in 2018. Tanja Woyke , who leads the Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … leaders in environmental genomics from around the globe through a collaborative network of researchers that we … so far selected the authors of these pieces to represent diversity in research area, gender, as well as stage of …
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… user facility at Berkeley Lab. geNomad is now accessible through the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s EDGE … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … to become an essential tool for researching global viral diversity. geNomad has already been downloaded thousands of …
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