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A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. … mobile genetic elements that were missed within paired metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs), and that dominant … of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large mixtures of …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into … that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick …

… so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses are also able to … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … of a virus relative to its host (inferred through sequence data) can suggest different predatory behaviors. A high …

Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … environment, which would be transformative at industrial scales. “Cell-free systems have been really powerful at … in yeast, a key platform organism that has been used historically for making sustainable products in industry.” From …

… it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University … microbes are transformed into virocells that are metabolically and functionally different from uninfected cells. … between the  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab process. Typically, after incubating microbial communities with labeled … National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … microwell plates, allowing them to be processed at a larger scale through downstream DNA purification and sequencing …