Search

… answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What …

… development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental approaches to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization of community-building efforts …

… is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and …