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… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, …

… outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to …

… to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase protein … AMGs in soil viruses thought to break down chitin, the gene sequences were cloned by the JGI.  The JGI’s DNA synthesis … and AMGs. It could spawn future research into understanding why these AMGs exist in the first place, and what function …

… New Process Uses Microbes to Create Valuable Materials from Urine …

… organisms can do. And we need the field’s context to see why it matters.” As his career progressed, Hungate has gotten more interested in microbes with the potential to impact global climate change, … these amazing technologies that the JGI has to identify and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale …