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… water resources and restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily … soil enrichment, is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … that reconstructed more than 2,000 genomes of large and giant viruses belonging to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA … space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold, offering the …

… novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … ‘Dark Matter’ Microbial communities living everywhere from soils and stomachs to the deep sea are capable of doing a …