The Lady or the Tiger: Nanopore, Illumina, and PacBio

Posted on March 21, 2018March 26, 2018

(Note: This post was updated on 3/26/18 after re-running some of our analysis based on suggestions in the comments and on Twitter). We were very excited to get our MinION sequencer from Nanopore 1.5 years ago… so many potential applications; sequencing in real time, use in the classroom, use in the field, not having to …

New paper of interest on “Phylotags” – High-resolution phylogenetic microbial community profiling

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in Methods and Tools Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on February 17, 2016

This seems like it could be of interest to microbial community researchers: The ISME Journal – High-resolution phylogenetic microbial community profiling Abstract (with bolding by me) Over the past decade, high-throughput short-read 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing has eclipsed clone-dependent long-read Sanger sequencing for microbial community profiling. The transition to new technologies has provided more …