From the WSJ “Big Data and Bacteria: Mapping the New York Subway’s DNA”
Great article about a great study. Read them both. Failing that, here’s my short version: A study entitled “Geospatial Resolution of Human and Bacterial Diversity with City-Scale Metagenomics” came out yesterday that is just fascinating on multiple levels. This article describes a large-scale metagenomics study carried out by the PathoMap project at Weill Cornell Medical …