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… that pays dividends. Microbes are at the core of many environmental processes, and their genetic makeup forms the basis of their behavior in the environment. Large metagenomic surveys could lead to better … play in determining the behavior of the physical environment and provide opportunities for biologically-based …

… mission-relevant science.   Supported by the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, the JGI provides … and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. Users and members of their research teams work …

… with the JGI. Working together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at …

… these families. They divided the protein families up by environment and found only 7% of protein families were shared across all eight environmental categories. Instead, families preferred a specific environment — whether that be soil, animal hosts, marine …