Moore Notes 10 1 12

Group Call

• Participants: Josh, Tom, Guillaume, Katie

• Call time
  • JE can make M/W time after 10/22
  • Until then, try alternating T/Th

• iSEEM2 meetup in Davis
  • Maybe early Nov
  • Tom will send around some possible dates

• Downloading data sets
  • Raw vs. processed (e.g., for GOS)?
  • Avoid bias with using different processing on different data sets
  • Download raw with quality scores in fastq file

• Josh's marine niche mapping project
  • Reviews: Reviewer 2 seems to be biased (conflict of interest?), Reviewer 4 may be convinced but has concerns about significance
  • Make plots of ICoMM data (diversity vs. latitude) for each month
  • Chris Novak recommends addressing reviewer #4

• Using PI-CRUSTS (Morgan's ancestral state reconstruction method) for functional diversity mapping based on 16S sequences
  • Will need to validate, e.g., with metagenomic data sets and/or different methods for mapping 16S to functions
  • Combine with PD maps?