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… discovery, predominantly in diseases of importance to each host country. It was built very much on the foundations of … it from the perspective of biofouling, from chemical ecology, from drug discovery in every possible disease … now, we’re seeing this sort of new generation of tools come along, which provide a much broader view on natural product …

… JGI Mission As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide advanced genomic capabilities, … Biological systems hold extraordinary potential to power innovation … and nutrient cycling to enhance crop resilience, improve soil health, and make more efficient use of marginal lands …

… 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 …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of … Phylogenetic diversity estimates show that the gap between cultivated and uncultivated Bacteria and … Jean-Marie Volland: Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara …

… effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was … diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a significant impact … tree was then constructed with the sequence data to compare viral chitosanases to others like it available in public …

…   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 …