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… organisms can do. And we need the field’s context to see why it matters.” As his career progressed, Hungate has … these amazing technologies that the JGI has to identify and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale … research (see his 2021 VEGA talk ). A global authority on viruses, Holmes was part of the initial release the genome …
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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 … system. The Program aims to better understand the viruses that coexist with humans – the “healthy” human virome - not … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …
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… This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, development of standards … and characterize viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore … data analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems …
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… before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI … for over 20 years in order to better understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. When she set out to analyze 500 … high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these …
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… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into … of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures that harvest light, transport molecules and regulate … of that machine — photosynthesizers’ DNA and RNA. These sequences provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of …
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… is a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across … reference genomes, this program is an important initiative that expands and diversifies workforce training in fungal … and distribution of fungal genome datasets. It includes JGI-sequenced and publicly available datasets encompassing a …
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