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Metagenomic Microbiome Analysis Expands Known Phylogenetic Diversity of Earth's Bacteria, Archaea
This microbial catalog can help in understanding secondary-metabolite biosynthetic potential and resolving thousands of host linkages to uncultivated viruses.
Genome-Wide Mutant Screen in Bacteria Helps Annotate Thousands of Genes With Unknown Function
The researchers proposed specific functions for transporters, enzymes, and uncharacterized protein families and identified several potential DNA repair proteins.
NIH Awards Gene Ontology Consortium $2.7M to Improve Knowledgebase
The funding will be used to develop new software and data structures to enable researchers to use the GO data for network-based analysis.
Metagenomic Analysis Unearths Metabolic Teamwork of Bacteria in Biogeochemical Processes
Researchers used a metagenomic approach to uncover 2,500 bacterial genomes from sediment and groundwater samples.
Metagenomic Sequencing Unearths Strange New Bacteria From Bioremediation Site
Researchers detected small bacteria with uncharacteristic ribosomes and other peculiarities when they sequenced water samples from a Rifle, Colorado bioremediation site.