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… in single microbial and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called … support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics research scientist, found that pieces of viruses … and S.R.S. acknowledge support for the IsoGenie Project (samples and metadata from Stordalen Mire, Sweden) by the …
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And so we wanted a profile across that protein family to sample that sequence space and have as diverse of a protein … the substrate scope of many enzymes. And so we have limited information. There’s a lot of work to do, and that makes … a great area to operate in, because there’s just so much information that we still need, and that’s the kind of …
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… to over 100 Dothideomycetes genomes, just enough of a sample size to test if a computer algorithm could … 25 Dothideomycetes species, and also provides more information about speciation events. … The work conducted by …
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… to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional … microbes. A comprehensive map of viruses including host information, Roux says, would be the foundation upon which … some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science/office-science …
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… provide colleagues at the Salk Institute with genomic DNA samples from Ruminococcus flavefaciens (XPD3002). With that sample, the Salk Institute team was able to engineer and …
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Committee member for the Center for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Virginia State University (2021-current). … Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews Genetics, ISME J, Nucleic Acids … Nature 578, 432-436. Bowers et al. 2017. Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a …
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… to go beyond understanding which microbes are present in a sample, to generate data about which organisms are active, … methane and organic matter. However, to get all of the information that SIP offers, researchers must take on a … generated plenty of insights, many studies don’t report the information needed to reuse and compare data. “So we …
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… produce antibiotics. Still, the team estimates that genomic information is only available for a fraction of extant … shape of the microbial tree of life by filling in genomic information for thousands of branches,” said Natalia … genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from sequenced environmental samples in a previous study. The team analyzed over 80,000 …
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… ignorant question. So if you have these organisms in a soil sample-- BETSY PARKINSON: Yes. JACKIE: --how does that … we have a little bit wider spread since we're just doing bioinformatic searches. The majority of them are actinos, but … molecule that's active. But if we do, we try and keep them informed about it, and we definitely tell them what type of …
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… the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of bacterial and archaeal cells — and …
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… in a controlled manner. These advancements allow controlled sample transport for mass spectrometry applications, for … follow-up meetings, agreements on exchange of materials and samples as well as research visits are organized. Selected … some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science/office-science …
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… missing from the analysis (due to extinction or you didn’t sample it). But once we deciphered the subgenomes we came up …
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