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The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, annotation and analysis … to explore the vast and diverse world of microbes. Studying bacteria and archaea, including those associated …

… genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … of uncultivated microbial lineages. Charting viral ‘dark matter’:   Viruses are abundant in the biosphere and …

… in 1985, which highlights our skewed understanding of microbial metabolism towards a minority of cultivated … into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 499, 431-7 (2013). Hess M., Sczyrba A., Egan …

… host-virus interactions, the exploration of the functional dark matter as well as the development of novel methods to enable … A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et …

The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production workflow, … genomic data and serving them to users via the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. Research Team    … The Integrated Microbial Genomes group is focused on:  Developing …

… features of the compound. For example, lipids– doesn’t matter if it has one extra carbon or two or one less, at the … move a little bit away from that to try to unmask chemical dark matter. And the idea behind this is that, if we … UGA-Langebio in Irapuato, Mexico. His interests are in microbial diversity and evolution, particularly as how …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though …

… exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With … health, and bioenergy development. … EcoFABs:  For studying microbe-host (or plant-microbiome) interactions … designed to demystify the complexity of dissolved organic matter (DOM) across a variety of environments. ENVnet allows …

… know nothing about biology. Biology hates us. It’s a little dark, but. [laughs] DAN UDWARY: Yep. ALISON TAKEMURA: It’s … of the IMG data portal , which is a larger portal for microbial genomics. IMG stands for Integrated Microbial … can be applied to secondary metabolism almost always, no matter what that is. Almost always. How do people do that? I …

… of thought with that. So some people are interested in cave microbial– people are interested in the more extreme … just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by imaging interactions … pharmacological properties. So they’re new compositions of matter. So one of the problems with the erythromycins and …