Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog (IMAGE)

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Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog

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Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles in the Earth's microbiomes. This image complements a public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the world, expanding the known diversity of bacteria and archaea by 44%, is now available and described November 9, 2020 in Nature Biotechnology. Work on this catalog of genomes from Earth's microbiomes catalog results from a collaboration involving more than 200 scientists, researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase).

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Rendered by Zosia Rostomian/Berkeley Lab

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