Moore Notes 1 26 15

Group Call

• Participants: Katie, Jonathan, Tom, Stephen, Josh, Patrick, Ladan, Sarah, Dongying, Guillaume

• Tara Oceans (slides)
  • See Notes 1_21_15 for summary of last week's call
  • Stephen: Ran MicrobeCensus
    • Default settings
    • Need to drop missing values
    • Some average genome size estimates are huge
    • Can work on eukaryote size estimates
  • Josh: Metadata (summary)(see email attachment for full data)
    • All open ocean
    • Mostly surface waters

• Sarah: (slides)
  • Preparing for job talks
  • Genes: "elite" (taxonomic) verus "regular" (functional) markers
  • Phylogenetic approach
    • How to distinguish HGT from conserved genes? Maybe look at flanking sequence
  • Different datasets and simulations
    • Proteorhodopsin as a positive control
  • Pairwise versus sample-wise testing
    • Summary statistics
  • Coverage issue
    • Run MicrobeCensus
    • This does not deal with zeros (absent or just not detected?)

• Next calls
  • Stephen: Feb 9
  • Dongying: Feb 23