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… in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to help train the … samples to the JGI for sequencing. While JGI processed, sequenced, and analyzed the soil samples, the JGI offered 7 … a deeper understanding of both the research process and metagenomics while legitimately contributing to the body of …
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… collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken … own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and …
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… of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural similarities in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is … Deep learning algorithms can vectorize faces… … so, why not proteins? … The U.S. Department of Energy …
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… fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … validate how mycorrhizal fungi play an integral role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing …
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… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … Along with highlighting the viruses in a given sample, metagenomics shed light on another key aspect of viruses in … can do. For example, understanding virus-host dynamics in soil microbiomes could allow for more accurate ecosystem …
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… (2023) Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature . 622(7983):594-602. Camargo AP. et al. … al. (2017) Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data. Science 355(6322):294-298 Paez-Espino D. et … al. (2015) Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 43(14):6761-71 Kyrpides NC et …
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