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Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been … of microbes through a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within …

… breakthroughs in basic science, and is exploring microbial-based synthesis of fuels beyond ethanol. … The JGI …

… behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … Banfield is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine … Mountain, CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna …

… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single Cells team member Frederik Schulz to screen the microbial communities collected. The team noticed some of …

… that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in …

… containers into sea water to sample algal communities along transects in the Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science … Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in …