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… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … govern ecosystems. These organisms carry out important environmental processes like  carbon fixation , nitrogen … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

… virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality … virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from …

… the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) have been recognized for outstanding achievements in science, technology, and … assembler that supports “an unprecedented assembly of environmental microbiomes.” JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer  … to assemble, for the first time these large environmental  microbial data sets for JGI users, which include projects …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest … more productive cacao plants and ensure there will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  …

… 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 …

… For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with … Tomas Tyml and Frederik Schulz, Eukaryotes in Extreme Environments Theo Loreaux and mentors Simon Roux and …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists everywhere. …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …