Moore Notes 9 1 10

Group Call

• ISME
  • Tom's notes: http://friendfeed.com/isme13
  • Josh's observations
    • Neutral theory for microbial soil communities with species abundance distributions (M. Vos talk)
    • Effects of dormancy on slope of species-area relationship, slope should be a lot lower with lots of dormant organisms
    • Finding oil on the sea floor using biological indicators
    • ICOMM Project: global marine samples from diverse environments (Jed Furman et al) - Josh is tracking down data
  • VIROME Project (http://virome.org/) is looking for bioinformatics collaborations
    • Assembly is going pretty well
    • They need help with gene/genome annotation
    • No 16S-like marker (some use caspid proteins) - hard to classify sequences into taxa, need an AMPHORA for each virus family or at least gene family HMMs for the proteins in a particular viral family
    • Also marine viral biogeography and ecological questions for viruses, e.g., virus-host interactions
    • Curtis Suttle's Nature paper (Josh will post on citeulike)
    • How easily will bacterial phylogenetic methods translate to viruses? Gene transfer, highly variable sites

• Projects using GOS data - will discuss in more detail next week
  • Compare notes about what every one is doing will GOS data
  • Steve is starting to write up a paper on PD (alpha and beta) in GOS
    • Separate paper or combine with other people's analyses
  • How are people presenting their results?
  • Could Bray-Curtis distance clustering be used for lots of different data types?

• 16S global diversity mapping
  • What samples are marine and usable?
  • Steve and Guillaume made a spreadsheet using lat/long and filtering, needs to be manually screened (~900 to look at)
    • Form a working group to discuss syntax for this if going to split up the manual checking - 1pm Thurs (Pacific time)
    • Should put the terrestrial ones into a separate pile
  • Drop ones with no meta-data
    • Might be able to recover some of them via backtracking to literature
  • Description field some times has info on depth or environment