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Could be interesting: The Metagenomics MVP Challenge v1.0

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Bioinformatics Methods and Tools Sequencing
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Source: NIST Challenge — CosmosID – Exploring the Universe of Microbes This could be interesting.  NIST & COSMOS ID and ABRF are conducting a metagenomic sequencing methods challenge. From their site: When using metagenomic methods to assess the content of a complex microbial sample, there are many steps in the measurement process where bias might …

Mick Watson (@BioMickWatson) is on a mission – collecting papers about bias in microbiome studies 

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So I just saw this Tweet @BioMickWatson can’t find paper I’m thinking of, but OTU calling software/algorithm matters a lot – David Baltrus (@surt_lab) August 6, 2016 So I went to Mick Watson’s site and saw this: This is my attempt to collate the literature on how easy it is to introduce bias into microbiome …