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… being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group … resistance and secondary metabolism would have been incorrectly attributed to viruses. The tool can be broadly …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the … the 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the …

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the …

… sequence data generated over the past three decades, their study assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we … genes on nearly 2 million genomes, including isolates, metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) with varying quality … Explorations for Understanding the Microbial World Corresponding author Ivanova said that the JGI continues to …

The User Support Analysis group provides computational analysis for new technology development and JGI user … experiment types, with main focus areas being genome variation, transcriptomics and epigenomics. Our work varies in … also performs ‘proof-of principle’ research projects to demonstrate new genomic capabilities. Our group also performs …