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… of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage … through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, … on culturing virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently published in  …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University of … workshops. Of common interest is the method development to study active sites or single cells in their functional …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … These days, Session is starting his lab at Binghamton “studying polyploids and transposon evolution, expanding on … in more species, as well as modifying this method to study other types of problems surrounding differential …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome … algorithms to identify billions of protein sequences in metagenomes.  We continue to engage with our user community …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … categories: Catalog the human virome; Develop tools to study the human virome; Explore how the human virome … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , …

Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility … Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … (affectionately known as “Chlamy” to those who study it) a powerful reference organism for studying photosynthesis and cell motility. It’s also a model …