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…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform … small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

… the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led … tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then … JGI’s  Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program . The ETOP helps researchers develop technology that can then be made …

… in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input without amplification. …

… When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they uncovered a novel … performance, and then applied it to environmental samples from the Great Boiling Spring Geothermal Field in Nevada. To validate the predicted cellulases from their captured genomes, the team then used DNA …

… Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech … to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this summer. …

… to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State … of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt Escobar and UC Davis … of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

… focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the …

… thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, …