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… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data repositories to two … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … Olpidium are obligate endoparasites of some common crops, such as lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years … and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and adapt to changing environments — ultimately … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, … or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in plant roots),  M. elongata  …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the fungus’ tissue. If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … relationships, but not all plants and fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …

DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called … Primary Template-Directed Amplification (PTA) yields a much higher completion, above 80% in most cases. The Impact … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops … messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … it was possible to identify specific attributes — such as heat resistance, fast growth rates, and an ability to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the … to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …