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2011: Review of a Remarkable Year

By Mark Pallen on December 31, 2011

2011 has been a remarkable year for me, during which I have travelled widely, met lots of interesting people, recruited substantial grant funding and had a paper published in the journal with the highest impact factor of them all! So, at the risk of producing one of those cheesy round-Robin letters that get stuffed in [...]

Posted in Academic life, E. coli O104:H4, Genomic Epidemiology, Great read at Birmingham, High-throughput sequencing, In our Time, Ion Torrent, Uncategorized | Tagged bioinformatics, birmingham, ion torrent, miseq, next generation sequencing, pacific biosciences | Leave a response

Technical advances in bacterial metagenomics

By Nick Loman on August 19, 2009

I chanced upon this RFA from the NIH entitled Development of New Technologies Needed for Studying the Human Microbiome (R01) which struck me as a good summary of the necessary technical developments before we can get definitive answers on the composition of the human (and other) microbiomes. Development of methods to isolate single microbial cells. [...]

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