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National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single … enormous impact her contributions have had on the field of microbial genomics. Her work in the areas of single-cell microbial genomics and giant virus studies has been …

… a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … algorithm, the search tool combed through more than 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying … The results revealed inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire …

… because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes database to include a … in soil microbiomes could allow for more accurate ecosystem modeling. In a different vein, characterizing CRISPR defense …

… that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples … Program, and already available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. Nikos …

… costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance between two … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …