Tag: Caporaso

Worth a read: Response to “Accuracy of microbial community diversity”

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Bioinformatics Sequencing
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If you work on amplicon based microbial community analysis this is definitely worth a read. Source: A response to “Accuracy of microbial community diversity …” by R Edgar for QIIME users – Announcements – QIIME 2 Forum It is by Greg Caporaso in response to an article by Robert Edgar.  I don’t want to get …

You Know Your Field Has Made It When …

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Humor News Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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I have nothing to add to this. The Onion picks up on the recent study by Caporaso and colleagues A study that swabbed office buildings in major cities found that the bacterial profile of the swabs corresponded to their location, suggesting that cities each have their own “bacterial fingerprint.” What do you think? Source: Study: …