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… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uncovered a broad diversity of large and giant viruses that … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly … environmental conditions. Function prediction on the 2,000 new giant virus genomes led the team to uncover a prevalence …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of … “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact The class  …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea … microbial communities could lead to the development of new biotechnologies around clean energy,  biofuels and … datasets are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal. The study,  published …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, … technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … Seshadri said. “It’s a reminder of the urgency to cultivate new microbial species.” Targeted Explorations for …

… 35 countries. (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) Project through a 2012 Community Science … groups of fungi. The 1KFG project has brought together over 400 proposal collaborators and co-authors with affiliations …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of … Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 encompasses four subgroups, adapted to … their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, …

… who have not led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science … metatranscriptomics and genome assembly to investigate microbial and plant metabolism across diverse ecosystems — … including biological routes for critical minerals recovery, microbial pathways for high-value bioproducts, and …