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… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, … characterize viral-host interactions. The team discovered that the mat’s viruses specialize to single …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University of … workshops. Of common interest is the method development to study active sites or single cells in their functional …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … These days, Session is starting his lab at Binghamton “studying polyploids and transposon evolution, expanding on … in more species, as well as modifying this method to study other types of problems surrounding differential …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome … algorithms to identify billions of protein sequences in metagenomes.  We continue to engage with our user community …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … categories: Catalog the human virome; Develop tools to study the human virome; Explore how the human virome … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , …

Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility … Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … (affectionately known as “Chlamy” to those who study it) a powerful reference organism for studying … and pharmaceuticals. The team at Merchant’s lab also discovered the existence of polycistronic genes within …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side … for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene that way,” said Kellogg, a …

Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral … Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. …