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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 of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …