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… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … and around the planet is an astronomical figure, and yet viruses outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG …

… or an enhancer, an activator, to go ahead and, and synthesize those genes within a model organism like E.coli , and … of natural product pathways are really difficult to synthesize. So we’ve got a picture up here of the erythromycin … we’ve already sequenced. So, you know, I’ve got a large database of millions of different biosynthetic gene …

… 2,000, 5,000 different cells, different colors, different sizes, different shapes, motility, all this stuff. But when …

… In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host … just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses can affect their prey in different ways. They have …

… cultures of fungi, algae, protists, bacteria, archaea, viruses, plants, including microbial communities and …

… chemistry, and he has a project with the JGI to synthesize the genes for and explore the chemistry of quorum … onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that really got me into that … to the Joint Genome Institute, and they were able to synthesize the genes for every single one of those and put them in …

… is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …