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… Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but … To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for …

… summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee Call,  Stephen Nayfach and  Nikos … have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  … the photosynthetic cyanobacteria found throughout the planet’s oceans can exert great influence on earth’s carbon …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe interactions, nutrient cycling, or carbon …