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… strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective … and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, characterization of molecular mechanisms involved … revealed as pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s biomes. Nature Microbiology. 4 , 1895–1906 Roux, S. …
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… elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several … drive innovations that could advance our understanding of Earth’s ecosystems. … The Metagenome Program focuses on the … The Program also aims to build a global-scale catalog of viral, microbial, and microeukaryote genomes and mobile …
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… genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture microbial and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial … . Research Team … Nayfach S et al. A Genomic Catalog of Earth’s Microbiomes . Nature Biotechnology . 2020 Nov 9. …
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… research. These efforts include exploration of the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, …
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Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including … Sai Prahabkar (UC Merced Intern) … Plant / Bacteria / Viral Interactions … Single-cell characterization of …
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… mediate a well functioning ecosystem and environment and earth. So yeah, it’s like these molecules can just mediate … Yeah, bacteria sound like a good place, to me, to look for diversity because there are so many bacteria, because it is … in Nature Biotechnology, titled ‘A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes’ . (Citation: Nayfach S et al. A Genomic …
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The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for … and advanced genomic analysis to explore the rich diversity of fungi and algae. These organisms play a … efforts that survey the vast phylogenetic and ecological diversity of fungi and algae, examining both natural …
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… reference transcriptome), DGE, alignment files 134/134 Viral Minimal Draft Draft quality viral assembly, many unordered contigs. Assembly, annotation ( IMG ) 280./298 Viral Single Particle Sort Draft quality assembly of …
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… postdoc Panama as part of the international cooperative biodiversity group (ICBG) based in Panama and was dual there … so we’ve been working with metals and in particular rare earth elements or Rare Earth metals with our cultures. And we see some very …
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… influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group Lead at the JGI. To understand the … been somewhat invisible to the sampling experiments probing Earth’s ecosystems. Viruses rarely grow well in … aspect of viruses in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity. As pioneers of this field, the JGI has leveraged …
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… hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses … lending their expertise in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data … environmental samples to help uncover the phylogenetic diversity of the human gut microbiome. By bringing their …
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