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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … And that led me to get even more interested in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass … off. And that’s in a single lifetime, right? Or maybe two generations. And so, you know, and the real question is, can …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types … well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism … IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. They also searched IMG/M …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually … Clustering Scalable … Cataloging Lineage Specific Conserved Genes in Giant Viruses … Pan-genome Graphs: Approaches for …

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research community. The …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. The development of CheckV helps … these sequences may be tainted by the presence of non-viral genes. Up to this point, there has been a lack of fast and …

… data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call … genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, … about 2% of the human genome. They were interested in genes involved in repair of DNA damage, and those associated …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  …