Moore Notes 10 5 10

PI Call

• Progress Report

• PhylOTU paper
  • Excellent reviews
  • Strategy: do some new analyses, but not necessarily everything Reviewer #2 requested
  • Editor will be reasonable

• Distance-decay paper
  • Appeal to Theoretical Ecology? Talk to Alan - not sure what policy is at TE.
  • Peer review is highly biased against those who aren't big salespeople (e.g., bullet points sell well)
  • Reviewers/editor may not read whole paper if very technical
  • Deposit in arxiv.org?

• MaxEnt Range Mapping
  • Sampling needs to cover niche space
  • Try to submit a paper by end of year

• Protein Db
  • Families are mostly ready to go
    • Need to do some testing vs. PFAM
    • How well can one family be distinguished from another using profile HMMs?
    • Put some families on the back burner if can't resolve issues for every single one
  • Is Morgan sticking to PFAMs?
    • Maybe
    • Will probably try these new families
    • May add viruses
  • Tom is working on read classifier

• Grants
  • Moore put out RFI for ideas Marine Microbiology Research (due Nov 8) http://www.moore.org/mmi-rfi.aspx
  • New Howard Hughes-GBMF Investigator program (plant biology)
  • New proposal idea
    • look at co-evolution of host (e.g., mammals) and commensals
    • phylogeny of host + microbiome data (as a character state) to infer ancestral microbiome taxa
    • major transitions in regulatory pathways, innate immune system

• No-cost extension
  • JE will check on it
  • MW needs info for his grants office