Moore Notes 4 10 13

Group Call

• Participants: Ladan, Tom, Stephen, Josh, Guillaume, Katie

• Guillaume is getting more privileges on edhar to monitor use
  • Storage is filling up
  • Not backed up

• Moran data
  • Josh looked at metadata files
    • Not a ton of samples (100)
    • More importantly, they are mostly clustered on the GA coast and South Pacific (transect?)
    • However, one file contains many dispersed sampling sites - Josh/Guillaume will follow up
  • Tom: 1000s of thousands of reads since 454
  • Katie: Will still be >100K families

• What is the goal of protein family niche modeling?
  • Data mining for proteins with novel associations with environmental variables
  • Mapping diversity and some well-known families/pathways (e.g., KEGG)
  • Taxonomic vs. functional diversity

• Plan: Try a regional analysis of South Pacific
  • Guillaume will install MRC at Davis and process Moran's Pacific data
  • Josh (with Mariel?) will work on
    • Statistical analyses of all SFams
    • Mapping of SFams with KEGG annotations of interest for biogeochemical processes

• SFam updating
  • Guillaume is finishing up code
  • Major changes for data tracking (e.g., construction IDs, seed vs. full, updated vs. old)

• Josh: total diversity estimator
  • Global diversity estimate
  • Number of OTUs shared or exclusive between two regions
  • Validating on macroorganisms
  • For microbes - need range maps and some deeply sampled locations