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… final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the … this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how …

… 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the team focused on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with … Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI … Over the years more than 3,400 genomes have been sequenced from curated DSMZ isolates, for which quality DNA has been …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing …

Molecular Cell 2019) and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in … and comparative analysis of thousands of archaeal and bacterial type strains ( GEBA-type strains project ), the … al. (2017) Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data. Science   355(6322):294-298 Paez-Espino D. et …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists …

… particularly sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … the third is determining the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size … symbionts in sulfur-rich mangrove sediments not far from his lab when he first encountered the bacteria. “When I … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …