Nikos C. Kyrpides

TL;DR: The DOE-JGI Microbial Annotation Pipeline supports gene prediction and/or functional annotation of microbial genomes towards comparative analysis with the Integrated Microbial Genome (IMG) system.

TL;DR: Insight is presented on the transcriptional regulation and secretion of cellulases which may facilitate the industrial exploitation of these systems in soil actinomycete.

TL;DR: Compared with other giant viruses, the Klosneuviruses encode an expanded translation machinery, including aminoacyl transfer RNA synthetases with specificities for all 20 amino acids, indicating that they did not evolve from a cellular ancestor but rather are derived from a much smaller virus through extensive gain of host genes.

TL;DR: A short history of the GSC is provided, an overview of its range of current activities are provided, and a call for the scientific community to join forces to improve the quality and quantity of contextual information about the authors' public collections of genomes, metagenomes, and marker gene sequences is made.

TL;DR: The third version of IMG/VR is presented, composed of 18 373 cultivated and 2 314 329 uncultivated viral genomes (UViGs), nearly tripling the total number of sequences compared to the previous version, and annotated with a new standardized pipeline including genome quality estimation using CheckV and expanded host taxonomy prediction.