Results
… (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her team’s metagenomic samples . While Banfield continued exploring the interactions between the bacteria and viruses in their samples, Doudna and her team … the largest component of a genome sequence, accounting for 45% of the human genome and 50-80% of certain plant genomes …
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… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of … comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined …
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… The work is supported by NIH Common Fund grant 1U01DE034196-01. The JGI team, including Kyrpides, Camargo, and … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , … prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria ( PLoS Biol , 2023). These tools have significantly …
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… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and … Summary The CRISPR-Cas system is an immune mechanism in bacteria that confers resistance to foreign genetic elements … by searching for Cas12d homologs across IMG/M’s assembled metagenomic data. It turned out that some of these were …
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