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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a … information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, RNA viruses store their …

… single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority … everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. In a recent … the researchers insights into how they might interact with their hosts, and how those interactions may in turn impact …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have …

Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. … of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … this to untangle which microbes ate the compound and how much they ate.  These analyses provide granular insight into … set up a broad experiment to compare results between labs. Their labs, as well as Pett-Ridge’s group, will assemble …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … Olpidium are obligate endoparasites of some common crops, such as lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause … paper was able to resolve the latter question, despite of their well-designed sampling and analysis of their data at …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …