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… identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have … impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden components, … second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase …

… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental ch … reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking …

… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable … findings in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His … of community-building efforts in the field of viral ecogenomics. For this role, Dr. Roux can rely on more than 10 … years of expertise in the fields of virus ecology and virus genomics, where he has engaged in collaborative, …

… helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … edits affect functionality.  CRAGE allows for the transplanting of these BGCs from one organism into an alternate …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum … of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, …

… transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part … genes associated with a given transcription factor is resource-intensive and unscalable. To test the efficacy of …

… microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial … the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated Genomics Inc. in Chicago, IL. He did his postdoctoral … on Microbiome Research with an emphasis on Microbiome Data Science. His group is developing novel methods for enabling …

… assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides. To demonstrate its …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and …