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Elucidating Bacterial Gene Functions in the Plant Microbiome
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Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome
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Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function
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Climate-driven succession in marine microbiome biodiversity and biogeochemical function
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Finding the Fermenters
… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … function of these two isolates. The combined taxonomic and functional annotations were used to predict the final end …
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Metagenomic insights into the taxonomy, function, and dysbiosis of prokaryotic communities in octocorals
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DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function
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A functional microbiome catalogue crowdsourced from North American rivers
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for … understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity.  In 2021, he …
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Water aging and the quality of organic carbon sources drive niche partitioning of the active bathypelagic prokaryotic microbiome
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Industry Engagement Program
… joined the JGI in 2017, he brought with him 20 years of industry experience — and an opportunity to expand the JGI’s portfolio of user companies. Now the Department of Energy is uniting … and assembled physical DNA constructs that can then be functionally characterized.  Our metabolomics platform …
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Variation in Root Exudate Composition Influences Soil Microbiome Membership and Function
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