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… viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of known high … working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s …

… genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can … recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed significant … increased nutrient uptake and decreased cell death.  Scientists then extracted RNA to analyze gene expression, to …

… assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …