{"id":328934,"date":"2017-06-12T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c350eb3e38dbb5d29162ea3277d45813"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:00:08","slug":"uncovered-1000-new-microbial-genomes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=328934","title":{"rendered":"Uncovered: 1,000 new microbial genomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of microbes in a handful of soil exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but researchers know less about what&#8217;s on Earth because they have only recently had the tools to deeply explore what is just underfoot. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, have taken a decisive step forward in uncovering the planet&#8217;s microbial diversity. In a paper published online June 12, 2017 in Nature Biotechnology, DOE JGI&#8217;s Prokaryotic Super Program head Nikos Kyrpides and his team of researchers report the release of 1,003 phylogenetically diverse bacterial and archaeal reference genomes\u2014the single largest release to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of microbes in a handful of soil exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but researchers know less about what&#8217;s on Earth because they have only recently had the tools to deeply explore what is just underfoot. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, have taken a decisive step forward in uncovering the planet&#8217;s microbial diversity. In a paper published online June 12, 2017 in Nature Biotechnology, DOE JGI&#8217;s Prokaryotic Super Program head Nikos Kyrpides and his team of researchers report the release of 1,003 phylogenetically diverse bacterial and archaeal reference genomes&mdash;the single largest release to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328935,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328934\/revisions\/328935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}