Moore Notes 11 3 10 PI

PI Call - regarding GBMF RFI

• JE is working on data proposal about microbes on marine algae
  • eel grass: only marine plant
  • kelp as comparison
  • wants one experimental system for lab
  • functional studies of microbes
  • totally separate from metagenomics informatics, except characterizing the community (rRNA surveys)
    • could be linked, but how?

• KP is thinking along lines of NSF/NIGMS Math Biology proposal
  • Aims
    • OPF database and read classifier
    • geographic distributions
    • niche estimation and mapping
    • compare geographic and niche distributions to get at function
  • Analysis of specific existing data sets ("for example"), but don't pick one
    • But say they are coming and we'll do others as they come on line (e.g., More from JCVI, Jerome Roass from HMP and Europeans: MAMBA) http://mamba.bangor.ac.uk/
  • JE would be interest in being a co-PI
  • Should list names of others working in this area
  • Start a Google Doc

• Martin
  • Does it have to be marine?
  • What about NSF Biodiversity call?