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JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental sequences across the globe, then using these sequences to …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was … to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of multiple Department of Energy Office of Science National User Facilities into …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage …

Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first … the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … metabolic and functional capabilities. Take part in the "Sequences to Cultures" Jamboree!  Immediately following the …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the ecosystem. ALISON:  So, Ed is trying …