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… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of … of antibiotics, and a deeper understanding of the bacteria potentially holds the key to discovering new antiviral … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify … in yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to assess the potential of intermediate gene expression on two … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. …

… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … hold keys to tree health and carbon storage — skills that matter increasingly as the climate warms. However, these are … found in soil samples, and assembled those RNA transcripts into a metatranscriptome. Overall, they found that despite …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

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

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. Additionally, these … species compared with farmed cultivars, highlighting a potential conservation threat for wild species. Sequencing …

… Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences and … will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, … and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these …