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… author Alisa Huffaker, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego. The findings could help scientists …

… the research consortium aims to generate over a terabase of sequence. “We are thrilled to support this year’s CSP …

… using advanced technologies to reconstruct the complete sequences of individual chromosomes. The team describes the … hypothesizes the difference might not be due to repeated sequences, but rather the more accurate assembly of regions …

… genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental sequences across the globe, then using these sequences to make inferences about the biogeographic … giant virus genomes reconstructed from environmental sequences is still challenging and even with this study we …

… “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” she will work with Susannah … work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. “This award …

… under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and … of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) directly from sequenced environmental samples without needing to cultivate … – that’s pretty remarkable.” Adding Value Beyond Genome Sequences Much of the data had been generated from …

… cover 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 …

… hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. …