The TWiM team speaks with Pat Schloss about assigning sequence data to operational taxonomic units, and his experience with mSphere Direct, a new way of submitting papers for publication.

Hosts:

Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson.

Special guest: Pat Schloss

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Links for this episode

• Schloss Laboratory

• OptiClust (mSphere)

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