There is a new #openaccess paper out that may be of interest to many working on microbes in the built envronment or microbes in air (indoors or outdoors): Challenges and Opportunities of Airborne Metagenomics by Behzad et al. in Gebome Biology and Evolution. There are some useful things in this paper and some strange things but …
There are few constants in this world. One exception, however, is the passing of day to night, which has gone on without fail since life first emerged on Earth. Early life quickly learned to anticipate changes associated with light and dark. This ability to tell time – to peer into the immediate future – was …
Well, I have been digging around a lot into Nanopore sequencing recently. This started as preparation for a lecture I gave at the Bodega Applied Phylogenetics course a few weeks ago on “The Evolution of DNA sequencing.” In preparation for my talk I posted my slides from last years talk and asked people on Twitter …