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… on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The Program aims to better understand the …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to … a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an … leaves, a team of researchers sequenced  P. trifoliata ’s genome. Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) …

… insights into environmental tendencies The Science The  Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has been developed to help inform … activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern … (Berkeley Lab) took on the Open Green Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. The OGG has … about OGG in  this episode of to the JGI podcast Genome Insider . ) Summary A recent paper published in Nature …

… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His … of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature Reviews Microbiology …

… seems hard to believe in retrospect. BILL FENICAL: Well, in 2021, absolutely hard to believe. But when you go way back, … So, this was when we started saying, we have to have the genomes. We have to look at the full picture of these. And … eight of these weird bacteria. And we proposed to the Joint Genome Institute. DAN UDWARY: Oh, that’s where we come in. …

… the JGI is sequencing thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes from diverse branches of the Tree of Life.  Its … ,  summarizing insights from three decades of work on giant viruses — providing a perspective on giant virus diversity, … sped up the study of giant viruses.  Kyrpides and the JGI’s IMG/M Data Portal were instrumental to  a study that looked …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect … in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert to form the foundation of … microorganisms had a close relationship. Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. …