Quick post. We are starting to build a glossary on terms and their definitions to help people read/understand papers and stories about microbiology of the built environment.
If you have any ideas for terms to include, let us know.
Among those on our list
PCR
rRNA
diversity
phylogenetics
metagenomics
transcriptomics
annotation
culturing
UNIFRAC
Illumina
DNA sequencing
454
pathogen
virulent
mold
sequence alignment
also OTU
metadata
taxa
phylotypes
BLAST
phenotype
chimeras
MG-RAST
alpha diversity
beta diversity
Phylogenetic tree
Pyrosequencing
Sanger Sequencing
qPCR
also
biogeography
air-exchange rate
deposition velocity (deposition of bioaerosols onto surfaces)
building scientist
built environment
metagenomics
sequence reads
nucleotide composition
taxonomic assignment
assemblies
contig
marker genes
Dendrogram
Heatmap
Clade
“Relative abundance” (as used in 16S data)
UniFrac
NMDS ordination plot