Just over a month ago an issue of Nature had two articles from the Human Microbiome Project Consortium – you may have seen them, or noticed the Friday SNPets items we had on them. I promised myself that I’d read the articles (which I did), and that I’d visit my old friends the IMG (Integrated [...]
A few weeks ago a commenter asked me to compare IMG (Integrated Microbial Genomes) to the UCSC Microbial Genome browser. I’ve been exploring & thinking since then & am going to give a very brief comparison of those two resources in today’s tip & I’ll expand the comparison to other resources here in the text [...]
I was catching up on reading past BioMed Central Article Alert emails & I saw a resource that I wanted to pass on to you. The resource is WebCARMA, and is a web version of the CARMA analysis program (not too hard to guess that, though huh?!?). Yea, but what is CARMA (the software version [...]
Nature had a nice feature on metagenomics last week and another on the Human microbiome metagenomics. You’ll need to have a subscription to access those , but the gist of the latter news feature is the possibilities of Human microbiome research, pros and cons and the projects out there. There are a lot. In order [...]
Wow, how can you resist blogging about an article who’s title begins “Dissecting biological ‘‘dark matter’’…”? I found the article while working on a new ‘sponsored’ (read ‘free’) tutorial on the Integrated Microbial Genomes with Microbiome Samples (or IMG/M) resource. (I’m hoping the tutorial will be released in the near future & I’ll post when [...]
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