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… for microbiome data science, and the development of new informatics tools specifically optimized for … data on scales ranging from single genes and individual genomes to metagenomes to systems-level modeling and … to connect and engage the microbiome community to unlock new possibilities in microbiome data science. … National …

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Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, … technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … Seshadri said. “It’s a reminder of the urgency to cultivate new microbial species.” Targeted Explorations for …

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance … the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science … the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of individual organisms or environmental DNA, and …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … the environment and, if so, to what extent.  “These new groups were discovered not by cultivation, like the original …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea … microbial communities could lead to the development of new biotechnologies around clean energy,  biofuels and … datasets are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal. The study,  published …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of … “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uncovered a broad diversity of large and giant viruses that … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … environmental conditions. Function prediction on the 2,000 new giant virus genomes led the team to uncover a prevalence …