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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  … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … Science User Facilities operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work also received support from the …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The students’ research … JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference … genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. “The Chlamy genome launched …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … Institute Community Science Program (JGI-CSP) grant (CSP2568 to P.Z., ES and AH), and by a fellowships provided by …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … P. hallii Mutant Library … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on Microbial Root … Cross Species Comparison of Plant …

The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) … Q:  Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in Cell , a team led by researchers at Tel Aviv … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

Community Science Program gives researchers access to all kinds of sequencing, ‘omics and bioinformatics capabilities — and it’s open to scientists at …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …