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… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell …

… are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated … partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered tools to study this complexity, including single-cell and spatial …

… — worse, they didn’t even know how big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights … (IMG/M) database, they successfully crafted the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog.  “We can now … ‘Dark Matter’ Microbial communities living everywhere from soils and stomachs to the deep sea are capable of doing a …

… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … culture. Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. … over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of known viral genes by a factor …

… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA … to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … applied to DNA methylation analysis as well as improving metagenome assemblies. Q&A from the Webinar: Input & …

… another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … was jumping onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that really got … could imagine if you have two colonies of bacteria in the soil or something and they’re competing with each other, if …