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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their …

… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is committed to advancing the field … Genome Project (HGP), and building upon the principles for open access in the field of genomics established in  … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, the new approach detected inoviruses in 3,609 (6 percent) of the …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although … often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters … a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio Two special days occur in April: the 50th … JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able … of 328 “high quality” (based on completeness) diverse new virophage genomes containing all four core genes. These …