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… hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught several microbes from known …

… described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms … a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used sequencing methods for the first time … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last …

… “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant … comprise a full third of each moss genome, and are almost four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …