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… head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. … The topics students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

… the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel capabilities of IMG/VR to browse and …

… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  … CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize and remove invaders’ DNA from their own genomes. One of these systems, the …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to … it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and … gene clusters and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of evidence showing that …

Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform … small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) …

… abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from additional parents or duplication, also known as …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be … researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity … symbionts in sulfur-rich mangrove sediments not far from his lab when he first encountered the bacteria. “When I … The LRC provided funding for Volland through grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for …