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…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The … in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … Research Scientific Computing Center, the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source, future collaborative … projects were also intensively discussed. The Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology (BSISB) Program for the …

… research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to …

… some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called … time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than non-polar algae. They … sp. YARC, which also contains expanded genes for proteins requiring zinc. Co-expression analysis as well as …

Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential … as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact … soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and … stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of …

… place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and the JGI about …

… for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular movement, each of these lures are the bait designed to attract specific catches. A similar technique has been … the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, followed by protein in vitro expression and mass spectrometry-based …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold, …