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Over 1,200 Built Environment Genomes from Metagenomes

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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We were super excited to see the recent paper “Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life“.  Really, the title says it all… the authors took hundreds of published metagenomic studies (focusing on non-human environments) and assembled thousands of genomes.  Awesome. But we were curious how many of these genomes came …

Harvard Magazine covers Sloan grantee Curtis Huttenhower’s research: microbes in transportation systems

By Hal Levin   Posted in Sloan MoBE Program Transportation
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In November, 2012, Curtis Huttenhower began work (with funding from the Sloan Foundation) to examine the transmission of human-associated microbes by public transportation surfaces. An article on “Big Data” in the current issue of Harvard Magazine includes a description of Huttenhower’s work in the lead article “Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal.” After very …