Tag: 18S rRNA

Workshop to produce curated 18S rDNA reference database

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Bioinformatics Training and Courses
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Just got this announcement by email and I thought it might be of interest: Join the curation effort & enroll in our first workshop! What: Workshop to produce curated 18S rDNA reference database. When: July 19th — 25th, 2015. Where: Vancouver, Canada on the University of British Columbia campus. How much: We will cover the cost of housing, breakfast and …

What’s in your tap water? Microeukaryotes – probably more than you think.

By Holly Bik   Posted in Research Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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This new paper might fall under the category of “things you don’t want to think about.” After reading this study by Buse et al., I now ponder what’s in my drinking water every time I fill up a glass from the tap: Buse HY, Lu J, Struewing IT, Ashbolt NJ. (2013) Eukaryotic diversity in premise …