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… vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and … The program’s focus is on large-scale sequencing efforts that survey the vast phylogenetic and ecological … populations and engineered strains. This approach allows for the identification of key functional traits that have …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years … most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed … began colonizing the oceans  about 3 million years ago. The study shows that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 …

… in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work … at Tel Aviv University in Israel, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

… shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … this was the first workshop of its kind on SIP metagenomics,” Malmstrom said.  Increasingly, efforts like … data analysis. … MetaSIPSim Toolkit Simulating metagenomic stable isotope probing datasets with MetaSIPSim …

… — worse, they didn’t even know how big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is impossible.  Metagenomic sequencing allows researchers to study the …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.   … Lab), and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the environmental …

… how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  …

… advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first … Sigma-Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF …