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… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … scientists have shown at least two microorganisms from different phyla are capable of methanogenesis. Using …

… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea flourish … in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the … (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome …

… Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics technologies, keen … breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the quality of those genomes, is rising. The … at the JGI and KBase toward integrative biology and hear from researchers who are applying genomic sequence …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One …

… food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to …