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… behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single Cells team member Frederik Schulz to screen the microbial communities collected. The team noticed some of …

… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science … Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in …

… Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… The tool has also shed light on the widespread gain and loss of binding sites, a process known as regulatory …

… harvest light, transport molecules and regulate reactions. Identifying these proteins and then figuring out what they …

… a series of webinars featuring aspects of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) Nikos Kyrpides was … research consortium that collected and analyzed microbial samples from public transit stations across 60 … that will enable researchers to move from identification of microbial novelty to assigning metabolic and functional …

… characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity of microbial enzymes, which could have a plethora of potential …

… powerful at finding ways to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis …

… Center for Biotechnology Information's GenBank. This led to identifying 6,467 of those assemblies, or roughly 70%, to …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …