Tag: metagenomes

Over 1,200 Built Environment Genomes from Metagenomes

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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We were super excited to see the recent paper “Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life“.  Really, the title says it all… the authors took hundreds of published metagenomic studies (focusing on non-human environments) and assembled thousands of genomes.  Awesome. But we were curious how many of these genomes came …

Storify wrap up of #PSB16 Session on Computational Microbiology #microbiomes

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Bioinformatics Meetings and Talks Methods and Tools Sequencing
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I made a Storify summary of the Tweets from a workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that I attended on Tuesday on Computational Microbiology (with a big focus on microbiomes). [<a href="//storify.com/phylogenomics/psb16-session-on-microbiomes” target=”_blank”>View the story “#PSB16 session on computational microbiome #microbiomes ” on Storify]