Moore Notes 4 22 09

PI Call

• JE has a meeting to do the budget
  • modify budget?
  • Gladstone/UO transfers
  • We will talk again Friday 3pm

• Wiki postings
  • Sam's reorganization looks good
  • UO group went through Steve's postings
    • bags of genes vs. bags of organisms: super concatenation
    • could environmental roles lead to different phylogenetic/diversity signals in different gene families?
    • other reasons gene families could give different signals? e.g. divergent gene duplications, sampling
    • JGI review is good
    • other reviews (e.g. Schloss' "A Statistical Toolbox") cover the field (in pieces)
    • So, Steve is not going to take on a major simulation study
  • UO will go through Sam's postings
    • We should all do these sort of reviews
  • Others (e.g. James) are posting things
  • Remind Josh

• Dongying has built trees for all families
  • compare to each other and to concatenation based tree
  • quantifying similarity of trees noted in AMPHORA paper

• Josh (others?) need OTUs from GOS
  • what method to use for proteins?
    • Schloss? (DOTUR, new one for proteins)

• Srijak to do:
  • Run AMPHORA on GOS

• JE will follow up with Mike Lewis on genbeo dropbox

• CAMERA
  • still need accounts
  • Steve has a specific request
  • could possibly use some one else that Moore supports (e.g. Simon Schuster)

• Hiring
  • Morgan L. (to replace Sourav) has an offer

• Face-to-face Meeting
  • Summer: August 13-14
  • In SF
  • A little longer (2-3 days?)

• Topics for group call next week
  • differences between diversity measures for different gene families and why
  • OTU finding (e.g. GOS)
  • Everyone should ready up on this
    • Schloss paper
    • Knight paper