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… could have arisen from. DAN UDWARY: OK, so sort of a phylogenetic reconstruction kind of a thing. ALISON NARAYAN: … to test that hypothesis through site-directed mutagenesis, we would end up with dead enzymes. So often, when … is that it gives us a tool to help us– DAN UDWARY: You can generate that data. ALISON NARAYAN: –generate– JACKIE …

… environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential to … into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental …

… massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     Over the past … have been named. Among those sequenced, roughly half of all genes have completely unknown functions — like a vast … completely unsampled. This creates a bottleneck: Without genetic blueprints from diverse fungi, researchers struggle …

… Cataloging Lineage Specific Conserved Genes in Giant Viruses …

… of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types … well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first … its impact on climate along earth history.” Marker genes for diverse methane metabolisms Of the 10 MAGs …

… using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and …

… at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism … IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. They also searched IMG/M for all protein-coding genes belonging to each genome. The final dataset – …

… perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. The development of CheckV helps … these sequences may be tainted by the presence of non-viral genes. Up to this point, there has been a lack of fast and … (contigs) of proviruses flanked on one or both sides by genes from the host organism. With the virus-host boundary …

… beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? …

… contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, … about 2% of the human genome. They were interested in genes involved in repair of DNA damage, and those associated … 3% of the human genome. They wanted to learn about the genes implicated in the development of breast and prostate …

… traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …