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… increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  …

… other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … at the University of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

… involved? How long does it take to do all the analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics … up to 50 polar and 150 nonpolar metabolomics analyses. For the other calls, we allow up to 200 polar and up to 500 … transcriptome analysis and 8 replicates for metabolomics. Why is this? A:  We did a pilot experiment with the JGI to …