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… biogeographic distribution of these viruses in the various ecosystems, their diversity, their predicted metabolic … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and …

… issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … in April, which immediately precedes the JGI’s 14th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting. Registration for … genes for both pathways had never been observed in a single microbial population until now. Ca.   M. washburnensis was …

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

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … 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 …

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