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In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access … genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle … year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces … gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down … still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand …

… is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

… . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … structures that enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. … Berkeley National Laboratory, has unveiled these motility tools in hot spring  Chloroflexota .  Ocean-dwelling  …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on … far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …