Author Archives: jennomics

About jennomics

I am a Senior Research Associate at the Joint Genome Institute. I am also a PhD student in Jonathan Eisen's Lab.

Citizen (Funded) Science

Posted on May 20, 2013

As evidenced by the buzz around the Citizen Science session at ASM yesterday, microbial ecologists are increasingly looking for ways to engage “Citizen Scientists” to participate in large-scale projects, often by crowd-sourcing sample collection. This concept is not new; in … Continue reading →

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UC Davis’ 2nd Annual BioBlitz will be sampling MICROBES!

Posted on April 26, 2013

The first-ever MicroBioBlitz will be held tomorrow, April 27th, from 9am-2pm! Join the Eisen Lab and the UC Davis chapter of SEEDS (the Ecological Society of America’s Undergraduate Ecology Club) at the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve for their second annual … Continue reading →

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Fryxell subsampled data and PhyloSift results

Posted on April 23, 2013

Jonathan has made available 50,000 reads from each of the Fryxell libraries here. Just in case you find this useful for testing. Also in this folder, there are PhyloSift results for each library (SampleAnt1-5).

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Annotation Databases

Posted on April 22, 2013

MG-RAST allows you to view the annotation of your data using several different annotation pipelines/databases. So, we had a discussion about them. Each database/tool was tackled by a different person: 1. GenBank/RefSeq – Joe 2. SEED/Subsystems – Jenna 3. COG/NOG/eggNOG … Continue reading →

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Metagenomics Working Group – notes from 4/12/13

Posted on April 22, 2013

Guillaume ran us through the MG-RAST interface Question that came up again (to be asked at the QIIME workshop) – what is the difference between PCA and PCoA Canonical Correlation Analysis – a way to put vectors on your PCA … Continue reading →

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Metagenomics Working Group

Posted on April 22, 2013

There are a number of people in and around the Eisen lab who are just starting to work with metagenomic (not 16S) data, and most (all?) of us have no idea what we’re doing! So, we’ve decided to meet weekly … Continue reading →

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