DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
...ogy Program. "We are now exploring ways to analyze metagenomic data to enable accurate classification of sequence...system dynamics using metabolic reconstructions of metagenomic data. "However, so far all the methods that have been developed were aimed toward analyzing data com...Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes
...e as much information as possible from the largest metagenomic dataset ever collected. For more information about the expedition, please go to: the J. Craig Venter Institute (URL: www.sorcerer2expedition.org and www.venterinstitute.org ) ...New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'
...allowing scientists to begin making sense of these metagenomic jigsaw puzzles. They can examine gene sequences f... valuable to researchers, the committee urged that metagenomic data likewise be made publicly available in international archives as rapidly as possible. The data...Hundreds of thousands of viral species present in the world's oceans
... Angly, Forest Rohwer, and colleagues detail their metagenomic study of the diversity of bacteriophage present in water samples collected from 68 sites over 10 years from four oceanic regions (the Sargasso Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, British Columbia coastal waters, and the Arctic Ocean). They use pyrosequencing (a...Better sludge through metagenomics
...of Queensland, Australia, have published the first metagenomic study of an activated sludge wastewater treatment ...t/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nbt1247.html ). The metagenomic strategy entails generating DNA sequence information directly from samples of sewage sludge to provi...UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure
...oal is to create a community resource to house all metagenomic data that will facilitate and advance knowledge of...tionally intense questions derived from the larger metagenomic data collection. Calit2 and Venter Institute will also support a series of training sessions and s...