Moore Notes 6 2 10
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Group Call
- June meeting plans
- getting room with projector etc
- audio recording - laptop
- chalk or dry erase board (take photos)
- head count: 4 UCSF, 2 UVA, 4? UCD
- copy format from last time - set up wiki page
- add time to discuss manuscripts?
- Evolution meeting in Portland
- coordinate travel
- OTU paper
- request for comments from authors
- waiting on results:
- GOS analysis
- clustering linkage method comparison (PD vs. PID vs. taxonomy)
- Josh: oil spill diversity research
- funding: BP, NSF
- JE talked to Janet Jansen (LBL/JGI) at ASM about samples collected in gulf
- probably asked by administration
- special session on oil spill
- JE summary of ASM meeting
- many people producing data sets that have better biogeographical sampling
- lots of clinical microbiology
- not much on techniques, technological developments - more about biology
- did not see anything on new informatics developments or metagenomics
- lots of 454/Sanger sequencing of 16S rRNA
- sequencing error is really problematic for ORF finding and SNP finding
- HMP new genomes - 150 strains, poor quality assemblies (100s of contigs)
- targeting ~1000 reference genomes and will not be finishing/improving assemblies
- KP: do we need assemblies for gene family focused analyses?
- but, contamination problems persist
- more species does provide better sampling of pan-genome of each strain
- most do not add a lot of phylogenetic signal
- Norm Pace: 200 phyla of bacteria
- Ed DeLong gave several talks
- CAMERA
- had good conference call about a month ago
- they promised to do a Kepler workflow for STAP + WATERS
- download didn't work, want to test one online
- no further contact - missed them at ASM (booth in vendor area), haven't gotten back to JE
- OTU pipeline?
- alternative projects: MOTHUR, qiime
- Open access/RDP
- Unique identifiers for organisms (tracking, even if taxon name changes)
