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Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class within  Chloroflexota called  Dehalococcoidia . Some  … organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint …

… anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities … was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and the evolution of …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While … CRAGE, researchers are no longer limited to using model host microbes; theoretically, any microbe can serve as the …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy … oat, banana, potato, etc., switchgrass is polyploid. This means it contains more than two copies of the genome , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary …

… years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced … And we’ve been working on isolating and cultivating and sequencing extremophile protists from a hypersaline alkaline …