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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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …