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By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … scientist at the JGI and Molecular Foundry, and the study’s senior author. In other proteins, two histidine … and function of this protein. Starting from a gene, they’ve discovered an interesting zinc-mirror heme site that plays a …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, … on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team has also been able to discover additional microbes that contribute to the cleanup …

Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics … 116 (52) 27124-27132 Sasse, et. al.J. 2019 Multilab EcoFAB study shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass New Phytologist 222: …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes … interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated plots and …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed … Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. … U.S. Department of …