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… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … liquid transfer and microfluidics, to minimize molecular biology reactions, increase throughput, and enable …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … The more the better. We want to put at least a microgram of DNA in the tube so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in … spectrometry (LCMS).  We do a hydrolyzation of the DNA and we look and quantify the isotopomers. We …

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