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… of bioinformatics tools for extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large … (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this extreme environment are often less diverse than those within …
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… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …
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… Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come from 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … The work builds upon a pilot project to sequence antimicrobial-producing strains. Established by Handelsman, Tiny …
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… the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand … processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different poplar ( Populus trichocarpa ) trees, as … and contribute to stabilizing streambanks, wildlife habitats and water-quality regulation. Focusing on the …
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… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences. A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then … to defend against RNA,” Roux noted, “although it’s unclear why this is so rarely detected.” Developing Approaches for …
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… of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more extreme wildfires, more and more forests are under threat. … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …
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