Paramvir Dehal

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Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

Biosystems Data Science

Secondary Affiliation: Biological Systems and Engineering

BioEngineering & BioMedical Sciences

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PSDehal@lbl.gov

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JGI Leads Large-Scale Effort to Develop a Genomic Catalog of Earth’s Microbiomes

November 9, 2020

Microorganisms play key roles in regulating global nutrient cycles but only a small fraction has been identified and an even smaller number has been successfully cultured in a lab for study. In Nature Biotechnology, the known diversity of bacteria and archaea has now expanded by 44% through a publicly available collection of more than 52,000 microbial genomes from environmental samples. Of that number, 70% of the novel genome sequences were previously unknown, not yet cultured in the lab. The work results from a JGI-led collaboration involving more than 200 scientists around the world, KBase and NERSC. Read more about the genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes on the JGI website.

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