Moore Notes 10 24 12

Group Call

• Participants: Guillaume, Stephen, Josh, Katie

• Data availability and GBMF collaborations
  • Checked CAMERA?
    • Guillaume will double check
  • What are we looking for specifically?
    • shotgun metagenomic
    • many samples within one experiment
    • many diverse marine environments (with metadata)
    • FASTQ if possible (for quality - not available for GOS)

• Functional profiles via 16S + genomes

• Josh - needs the shotgun data and protein families to do functional mapping
  • Meanwhile working on beta diversity of 16S (taxonomic)
  • Also phylogenetic diversity
    • how aggregated vs. dispersed reads are on a tree (Steve Kembel's approach)
    • want to separate out taxonomic signal from the PD map (Forest et al. Nature paper)
  • Literature review to see what people use niche maps for (e.g., identifying hotspots of diversity)

• Stephen - it would be good to focus on specific gene families
  • Reliable ones, interesting ones
  • For example, proteins that are diverse or abundant in ocean acidification hotspots

• Guillaume - SFams
  • Cleaning up bug with NCBI IDs vs. IMG IDs
  • Add hit counter for tracking SFams downloads