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Network analysis of the Sloan-funded MoBE program publications

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Knowledge, Teaching, and Communication Scholarly Communication Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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~15 years after the first project was funded, the Sloan “Microbiology of the Built Environment” program has pretty much wrapped up.  Here at microBEnet, we wanted to take a deeper look at the impact of the program on the published literature in the field.  There were over 300 publications from the program through the end …

New publications on ribosomal RNA tools (databases, software, etc)

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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For those doing microbial diversity studies, analysis of rRNA genes via PCR is still a fundamental tool.  And thankfully many people keep maintaining various databases and tools for people to use to carry out analysis of rRNA data.  Here are some new papers of relevance: The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. …