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… learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several … short sequences from infecting viruses and phages to help the bacterial host resist foreign genetic elements. In …

… land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a … at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play a big role in our …

… affected by warming events. More time-series studies could help researchers improve predictive models on how climate … marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink. Summary As global temperatures … a series of geographic coordinates which go from coastal to open ocean waters. Between 2010 and 2016, Hallam and his …

… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical …

… researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This action triggers subsurface carbon cycling, … short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements … ecosystems by killing other cells. Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge within an ecosystem. …

… ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a … diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, …

… one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. … of systems. Before joining LBNL in 2006, she was Director of Application Development Systems at Gene Logic, Inc. …

Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow …

… download experience accessible from JGI’s plant portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal is currently only accessible via Phytozome, the improvements it encompasses are more broadly … you to reach out and share your thoughts — they’ll help us build a solid knowledge base that may inform future …

… the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … capability that is desirable in the microbiome field due to its high recovery of single-cell genomes. This is key to … Laboratory, is heavily invested in being the bridge to help scientists and researchers achieve their analysis …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), …