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… of the role small molecules play in diverse biological systems, sheds light on nutrient cycling, and leads to the … from diverse biological and environmental samples using advanced liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based methods in combination with advanced computational analysis.   Overview of metabolomics …

… “We’ve more than doubled the number of protein families known up until now, and identified many novel structure … through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully … environment — whether that be soil, animal hosts, marine ecosystems, etc.  “So, they must be doing something interesting …

… out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial …

… similar or analogous to what’s going on in terrestrial systems with plants making toxins and so on and so forth. … the ocean. And I would point out there was almost nothing known, absolutely nothing known, which was exciting but also … So, this was when we started saying, we have to have the genomes. We have to look at the full picture of these. And …

… Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … to the community level. The Impact Rivers are transport systems, and their health is heavily reliant on the energy … develop predictive watershed scale models to manage river ecosystems. One application for the information is the …

… partners. The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how healthy they are, a recent data set  … ) trees, as well as the soil surrounding their roots (known as the rhizosphere), researchers hope this massive and … (Berkeley Lab). All of this information — 318 metagenomes, 98 plant transcriptomes and 314 metabolomic …

… Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond to increases in temperature and elevated … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different … a carbon sink or a carbon source. These research results, building on the availability of genomic information from two …

… should be emailed to  Miranda Harmon-Smith, Synthetic Biology Project Manager . …

… materials, inter-organismal interactions, and predictive biology, modeling and biodesign — questions of relevance to … feedstock crops or model plants. Projects targeting marine systems must clearly demonstrate relevance and translatability to freshwater, coastal, or terrestrial systems. …

… The JGI mural on the 3rd floor of the Integrative Genomics Building whimsically references dozens of iconic JGI …