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…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … compared samples collected from an aquifer in 2012 and 2018 against a biofilm sample collected in 2018. They looked for …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological and …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers … as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by viruses in their environments. Environmental DNA sequencing …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The … and around the planet is an astronomical figure, and yet viruses outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber … portion of this research was performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …

… Facility, the JGI serves more than 2,500 users that predominately come from the public sector: academic and government institutions — with capabilities that had remained largely unknown and underutilized by industry. When … User Programs entail a competitive, proposal-based process including peer review. The process is streamlined, with …

… Kerrie Barry or Vivian Ng Prokaryotic projects: Tijana Glavina del Rio , Danielle Graham , or Miranda Harmon-Smith DNA … You can visit the Products & Offerings section of our website for more details, including a downloadable pdf of products categorized by …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a … effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled … complex process of uncovering the hidden secrets of soil viruses. The Impact The specific protein described in  a …