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… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … our understanding of fungal diversity by sequencing genomes from across the fungal Tree of Life, but they also highlight …

… campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this symposium is to bring together a “Viral Ecogenomics” … uncultivated viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore … be held on Nov. 18 in the Tilden room and open-air patio of the same building.  The symposium will include a mix of …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move … (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …

… Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … of countering multiple attempts at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR … foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle … identify, and characterize more than 200 microbial genomes that were mapped to nearly 30 major previously …