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Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI.  Additionally it includes … Weight DNA extraction and quality control (from PacBio) 2) Review guidelines detailing quantity and quality …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics … The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After … the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer … and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more extreme wildfires, more and more …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an … gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. …

The Impact Sphagnum’s impact on global carbon cycling and climate is estimated to be larger than any other single … is critical to predicting the ecosystem response to climate change. Through the CSP, researchers are aiming to have two … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … These kinds of innovations are particularly relevant as climate change intensifies and accelerates drought and …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg … applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …