I will be helping teach one day of this course which is fully-funded if you are a student from a COST-participating country… see below for details: Deadline is next week, so hurry if you are interested. COST training school ES1103: Bioinformatics for microbial community analysis Dates: December 11th- 14th (the school will begin at 1pm [...]
Here is a crude file dump of my live tweets from the third day of the Applying Advanced Molecular Techniques to Healthcare Infection. Same caveats as before: apologies for extraneous material, but something better than nothing. Also have created newspaper of links from the meeting here: http://paper.li/mjpallen/1319610603 #AAMTHI am signing off live tweeting and will start [...]
This article of ours has just appeared in Genome Medicine. Pallen and Loman Genome Medicine 2011, 3:53 http://genomemedicine.com/content/3/8/53 MUSINGS: Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine? Mark J Pallen* and Nicholas J Loman Diagnostic medical bacteriology is a conservative discipline. When busy house officers scribble ‘M, C & S’ [...]
454 sequencing technology has revolutionised the field of microbial ecology by providing a means to sequence tens of thousands of partial 16S rDNA sequences quickly and efficiently. However, this new capacity brought new problems to a field fraught with potential sources of bias. Early analyses of microbial communities using 454 data tended to overstate the [...]