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… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI … behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Welcome back to Natural Prodcast! … say that I started in fungal natural products – I did my Ph.D. with Craig Townsend and worked on aflatoxin …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority … using these sequences to make inferences about the biogeographic distribution of these viruses in the various …