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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the …

… have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, …

… a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … algorithm, the search tool combed through more than 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying … The results revealed inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around …

… also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different … with the JGI successfully simulated how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the dispersed oil.   Terry …

… to assemble, for the first time these large environmental  microbial data sets for JGI users, which include projects … looking at wildfire impacts, carbon cycling, and the microbial dynamics in freshwater lakes over a several year …

… Rocha UN, Shi S, et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nat Microbiol. 2018;3: …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … of Science User Facility. Y. lipolytica is a tantalizing microbial factory, capable of turning abundant biomass …

… to another, which can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, … sequences were retrieved using the  JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data portal. The IMG …

… But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  which dwells primarily in the rectum, downstream of the ileum and …

… metatranscriptomics and genome assembly to investigate microbial and plant metabolism across diverse ecosystems — … including biological routes for critical minerals recovery, microbial pathways for high-value bioproducts, and …

… the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from … from IMG/VR , a database that is part of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite, as well as …

… 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …