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Providing high-quality, publicly accessible sequence data goes hand-in-hand with developing and maintaining the databases and tools that the

Microbes heavily influence the planet’s cycles, but only a fraction have been identified. Characterizing the abundant but largely unknown

Several decades of research have demonstrated the importance of bacterial methanotrophs in carbon cycling processes of lakes, wetlands, and a

Hydraulic fracturing uses high-pressure injection of fresh water and chemical additives deep into the earth to generate extensive fractures in the

Most drugs currently approved for humans are either large proteins or small molecules. Between these two size categories are peptides. Peptides are

Oxygen minimum zones are widespread areas in the ocean. In these zones, oxygen is depleted due to the metabolic activity of microbes. Rising

Two genes, hgcA and hgcB, are essential for microbial mercury methylation. Detecting and estimating their abundance in microbes

The subterranean world hosts up to one fifth of all biomass, including microbial communities that drive transformations central to Earth’s