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… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group Lead at the JGI.  To understand the … they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material directly from …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation … before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to … microbiome data. In other environments, such as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets …

…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the exploration of … under standard laboratory conditions by their native hosts. We are developing cell-free based systems to express … Card toolkit (HERC-tk) to enable users to identify the best host to express their BGC(s). This is based on extensive …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community … … Adaptive strategies in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of …

The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock …