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… bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah … Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … maximize peatlands’ potential as carbon sinks and minimize their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of …

… series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the National Energy … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users requiring … multiple omics methods to examine microbial chemical production. The Science Soil bacteria in the genus Streptomyces … the same integrated approach to unlock useful chemistry in their organisms of interest — accelerating discovery of …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. … by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary … that allow the organisms to adapt to and control their environment. Many secondary metabolites are produced …

… metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting nearly … from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that single cell genomics can add … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the fungus’ tissue. If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, …

… mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, … hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … Huberiarchaeum would help fill in metabolic weaknesses. In such cases, these DPANN hitchhikers likely form a mutualistic …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies The … from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from their studied system results in seeing their predicted … their ratios of small DNA sequence fragments called tetranucleotides, are a way to measure the collection of the …

… In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses can affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene … long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are increasing their yields and improving their abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference genome for M. …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the … and as a feedstock for biomass-based biofuel production. As seen with many commonly cultivated commercial … 8X variant come from? Did they arise multiple times or does their broad distribution indicate multiple, independent …