Tag: pathogens

Microbiology blog of the day: BacPathGenomics

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Social Media
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Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so.  And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: BacPathGenomics Author: Kat Holt Tagline/Summary: Genomics and evolution of bacterial pathogens Recent Posts: Metagenomics analysis special issue in Briefings in Bioinformatics Phage annotation …

Reports (2) from Indoor Air sessions on microbiology of the built environment

By David Coil   Posted in Meetings and Talks Methods and Tools
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Things that jumped out at me from the afternoon session today.  For the morning session see here. Norm Pace (CU Boulder) made the point during questions that when we talk about “pathogens” in metagenomic environmental sequences, what we really mean is “sequences related to pathogens” and that probably most of those sequences don’t come from …