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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the … possible to do something that the field refers to as “genome mining”. So, if you can sequence the DNA and actually … hear more science from her, check out her podcast, Genome Insider. She talks to lots of great scientists outside of …

… will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  Theobroma cacao  – the tree that produces cacao … released by a Mars, Inc.-led consortium through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  …

… methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. … team on predicting host-virus connections between all viruses in  IMG/VR (Virus) and the GEM catalog, associating …

… Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … host cells. In a separate article, research scientist Simon Roux, a member of Eloe-Fadrosh’s Environmental … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological and …

… that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, … and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group Lead at the JGI.  To … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along …

… Jane Grimwood Natalia Ivanova Nikos Kyrpides Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Asaf Salamov Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja … a consortium that  released a very high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ) in  … to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the …

… membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head of the … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of …

… periodically at different depths. In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, … (above 200 m, or 656 ft), and have genes to support a photoheterotrophic lifestyle. In other words, they snack on …