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… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … have now developed CheckV (pronounced “Check-Vee”) to help researchers assess and improve the quality of … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

… Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … chromosomal sequences in mixed-genome samples) with a new tool called MetaGNN (Prashant Pandey of CRD). The …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference … on green algae. “The Chlamy genome launched over a dozen of new Chlamydomonas genome-related Community Science Program …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. …

… Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa … to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … said Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP projects accelerate our efforts to characterize …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

… Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are … fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples …

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

… Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health … 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, …