This video from Oxford Nanopore channel is showing how they use Nanopore on site in the desert, stating that “the future is already here” at time 3min40sec within the video. In the Gobi Desert, a team established a mobile lab for genome sequencing.Their objective was to investigate the microbiome of tiny mammals residing in this… Read More »
SRA: Sequence Read Archive The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) makes biological sequence data available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and allow for new discoveries by comparing data sets. The SRA stores raw sequencing data and alignment information from high-throughput sequencing platforms, […] However, it is rather difficult to even find the download links… and even… Read More »
The recent update on enterotypes1 was an important read. Yes, we desperately need to reduce the dimensionality of the gut microbiome data and discover the stable “archetypes” of the microbiome functional states. The concept of genera-based enterotypes is a step in this direction. However, one may feel a “sense of fragility” while reading the 2017… Read More »