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…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … to match a virus with a potential host. This can result in different predictions. The iPHoP program brings several of …

… this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s … tail fiber proteins, and thereby allow them to embrace different cells. Since that discovery, DGRs have been found … a fishing line, without harming the rest of the microbial community. The study’s publicly available dataset gives …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates …

Massie S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, … content on social media. She is also involved in the JGI’s community outreach efforts. Ms. Ballon has a degree in … in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson … last year: Kerrie Barry and Jeremy Schmutz worked with a community of switchgrass researchers to conduct a … established community gardens of switchgrass plants in 10 different field sites on a north-south gradient across the …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The … begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils across different burn severities look like a year after a fire. It …

… specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a … include six more species, so in total, we are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 RNA Seq … two species, one of which is sweet sorghum Rio from a JGI Community Science Program project and another is Lupinus …

… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … UniProt, exist, are not specific enough for a microbial community like that from a temperate coniferous forest floor … bacterial enzymes. Yet, they found proteomic data told a different story: fungal enzymes actually outnumbered …

JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers …