Moore Notes 8 13 08
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- Technology
- Jess and Katie tested Marratech, which was not good.
- iChat is better, so we'll stick with it and phone calls for now.
- Science
- Discussion of sequencing methods:
- (1) Filters (e.g. RNA vs. DNA, size, amplified vs. not)
- (2) Sampling (random vs. large insert clones (with marker genes))
- Discussion of taxa abundance distribution (# taxa vs. abundance) and rarefaction
- Discussion of review on metagenomic informatics by Chen & Pachter
- How to calculate the probability of seeing a particular number of genes from each of several taxa?
- Discussion of sequencing methods: