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… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … used 1,870 known virus-host pairs to generate a matrix of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus …

… — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can … catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible … more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like. …

… the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s …