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Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand …

Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. … two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the National Energy … capable of running smaller assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like. …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have … dependencies, intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid … — photosynthesizers’ DNA and RNA. These sequences provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of their groupings.  One …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine … is abundant in two subsurface ecosystems in very different parts of the world: Crystal Geyser, Utah, USA, and Horonobe … In such cases, these DPANN hitchhikers likely form a mutualistic relationship with their hosts. … This research was …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … this type of achievement is especially rewarding. Wint is listed as the primary author on this publication and drove …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to … Nearly 200 Terabases of data are expected to be generated for the accepted proposals, said Susannah Tringe, JGI User … focus area was inter-organismal interactions, and two fungal proposals focus on symbiotic relationships. Jessie …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between … successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … The process involves “labeling” a given substance by applying a stable isotope to it. The isotopes are …

The JGI mural on the 3rd floor of the Integrative Genomics Building … science depicted. The two-story JGI mural was commissioned for the JGI’s 25th anniversary and done by Berkeley-based artist Nigel Sussman. It was dedicated at …