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With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … microbiome data. In other environments, such as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of …

JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … focuses on investigating the repeated evolution of three traits relevant to DOE interests: photosynthetic … The work builds upon a pilot project to sequence antimicrobial-producing strains. Established by Handelsman, Tiny …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … are likely to infect, and (iii) identifying the genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their roles and …