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… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … Allen Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … of these methanogenic microorganisms was narrowed to a type of archaea called  Euryarchaeota . These ancient, … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures and …

Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science … developed and applied novel computational and experimental sequence-based methods for elucidating the gene regulatory … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with …