08.18.2017 - By Roman Cheplyaka
Michael Tessler
and
Christopher Mason
join me to talk about their comparison of
16S amplicon sequencing and
shotgun sequencing for quantifying microbial diversity.
Links:
The 2017 Nature paper that we discuss: Large-scale differences in microbial biodiversity discovery between 16S amplicon and shotgun sequencing
Michael’s et al. 2016 paper that describes their original 16S study: A Global eDNA Comparison of Freshwater Bacterioplankton Assemblages Focusing on Large-River Floodplain Lakes of Brazil
The sequencing data for these studies is available from NCBI:
PRJNA310230
(16S),
PRJNA389803
(shotgun)
Michael’s website
Christopher’s lab website
The Integrative Biology & Medicine
conference, featuring the talk on Postmodern Synthesis by Eugene Koonin
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