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… with GENESPACE, a computational tool for comparative genomics.   With a more robust reference genome, researchers …

… The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team … who led the research team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or …

… characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … to learn more about what microbes are present in any given ecosystem—particularly those that are in low abundances—and … this microbe. The work is an example of how function-driven genomics, which Woyke and her colleagues define as “any form …

… as well as contributing to nutrient cycling in these ecosystems. Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress …

… who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! …