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Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …

… recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Natural Products meeting earlier this … we have our conversation with Professor Alison Narayan, from the University of Michigan. I hope she’ll accept this … that afternoon. Who knows? I mean, things– just the technology is evolving so quickly that enables this area of …

… photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … in cold, but fecund polar waters. “A lot of our food comes from the North Atlantic, North Pacific and South Pacific … that influence algal diversity and gene expression. Sailing from pole to pole on four research cruises, they dipped …

… the product and deliverables as well as target cycle times from sample receipt to completion of standard analysis.  Raw … by physical separation of a biologically relevant unit from a microbial community, such as a microcolony, microbial … Combined assembly of related fractions originating from the same sample, annotation ( IMG/M ), binning Depends …