Moore Notes 3 19 14

Group Call

• Participants: Katie, Stacia, Tom, Ladan, Sarah, Josh, Guillaume

• Computing resources
  • Tom Purchasing
    • Dell 920 (120 nodes, 1Tb RAM) $35K
    • HTC db server (12Tb solid state) $6K
  • Still has access to OSU cluster, but busy
  • Pollard lab servers slowly getting fixed

• Patrick and Josh met with Suwen Zhao (Jacobson lab)
  • 4-carbon sugar with unknown function
  • Genome context analysis gives pathway
  • What is its niche? purpose?
    • Look for families in GOS and soil data metagenomes with shotmap
    • Josh will look at environmental correlates

• Data analyses for Shotmap paper
  • Almost all MetaHIT samples are processed with SFams, a few to do with KEGG, metaCyc done
    • Compare across databases
  • English Channel is done
    • Clustering based on seasonal variation
  • Discuss next time