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… growth, provide critical advantages to the organisms producing them, and are often involved in defense, nutrient … computational analyses of BGC size and complexity, BGC sequence composition, metabolic similarity & compatibility, … of horizontal gene transfer. … The SMC provides complete sequence and annotation data for secondary metabolite …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to … You don’t have tunnel vision anymore, only seeing the microbes you can grow in the lab — suddenly you see …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in … and massive reconstruction of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include … al. (2017) Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data. Science   355(6322):294-298 Paez-Espino D. et …

Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As … elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …