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… other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace … to maintain nutrient cycling that evolved separately from other similar systems, and offers new clues into a unique environment in the natural world. The Impact From the polar regions to the deep ocean, cold environments …

… experimental innovations, computational advances, and other technological developments leveraging recent progress in … researchers to discover novel lineages of life and move from the identification of microbial novelty to assigning … in the areas of bioenergy and biomedicine, as well as biotechnology. …

… physiology and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …

… important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r … select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology with JGI users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s … relatives with the BGCs, JGI scientists could relieve BGCs from their former genetic repression, enabling scientists to …

… plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists who have …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down … still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand …

… young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and …

… years. The DOE brought together the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome … as a partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.   Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria and its … Saganbacteria. At the same time, working with researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated … in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of …

… protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from their studied system results in seeing their predicted … (KNN) Classification. LDA is a supervised data compression technique that was used to take the complex, …

… the modified compound will have heavier DNA or RNA, and SIP techniques leverage this to untangle which microbes ate the … by weeks of tricky, laborious lab work to analyze samples from one experiment. Starting a  few years ago, researchers … this kind of intercomparison.  After a few decades, SIP techniques are well-primed for these kinds of …