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A Highlight of Molecular Ecology outside of Academia
I’ve recently made a career change. Actually, I’m not even sure whether to call it that, or the next step of a natural, if meandering progression of a scientist not on the academic career path. Even though I see more and … Continue reading
Metabarcoding for every body, every habitat, every time
The immediate reason why I wanted to write about Boosting DNA metabarcoding for biomonitoring with phylogenetic estimation of operational taxonomic units’ ecological profiles is its usefulness for the scientific community and the effort of the authors to make their study reproducible. … Continue reading
What is DAS? A new tool to recover genomes from metagenomes
There are a lot of data out there, and if you haven’t already noticed the ‘omics train has steadily stayed its path through the fruitful (but challenging) world of metagenomics. Metagenomics offers the chance to unravel complex microbial communities without … Continue reading
Signal Boosting a Comprehensive Review of eDNA and Metabarcoding Studies
Everything is meta these days – metabarcoding, metagenomics, and now meta blog posts that are reviews of reviews. Much like every ecologist at least dabbles in the molecular world, so most of those predisposed to molecular ecology and population genetics … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, community ecology, DNA barcoding, metagenomics, methods, microbiology, next generation sequencing, population genetics
Tagged barcode tags, barcoding, bioinformatics, eukaryotes, Illumina, metagenomics, methods, microbial communities, microbial community analysis, microbiome, NGS
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Major new microbial groups expand diversity and alter our understanding of the tree of life
I still believe in revolutions. And sometimes they just happen, almost unnoticed. One such revolution happened on a boring 11th of April 2016 when Laura Hug et al. published their new tree of life in the journal of Nature Microbiology. … Continue reading
Easily aggregate bioinformatic sample output with one tool
Today I’m going to write about one of my favorite bioinformatic tools, MultiQC. If you’ve used it, you know why, and if you haven’t, prepare to be amazed. Many bioinformatic software produce output on a per-sample basis. That is, you … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, next generation sequencing, software
Tagged bioinformatics, multiqc, software
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Handling microbial contamination in NGS data
Until recently, I had given little thought to the potential for unwanted microbial contamination in high throughput sequence data. I suspect that if you’re a molecular ecologist who doesn’t primarily study microbes or work with ancient DNA, you’re in a … Continue reading
Using R to mine species data
Many of us generate more data than we know what to do with (speaking of which: keep an eye out for the 2016 NGS Field Guide, coming soon!), so it’s easy to forget about the piles of data already at our fingertips. Research potential is … Continue reading
To find duplicated loci in vertebrate polyploids, try thinking small
Big sequencing efforts have gone a long way to help understand the complexities of polyploidy. However, the bioinformatic approaches to sorting and scoring alleles in next-gen data are generally designed for easy of use in diploid species. Unlike a diploid species, where … Continue reading
Posted in genomics, methods, next generation sequencing, Uncategorized
Tagged bioinformatics, genomes, polyploidy
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The 2016 Workshop on Genomics summary
I recently had the pleasure to spend two and a half weeks in the beautiful medieval town of Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. The reason was the popular Workshop on Genomics that was running and I was one of the TAs … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, genomics, next generation sequencing
Tagged bioinformatics, genomics, NGS, RADseq, RNAseq, unix, workshop
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