Pop group meeting

09/29/2008

1. Benjamin Langmead Metagenomic Analysis of Lysogeny in Tampa Bay: Implications for Prophage Gene Expression (PLoS one)
2. Bo Liu Systematic bioinformatic analysis of expression levels of 17,330 human genes across 9,783 samples from 175 types of healthy and pathological tissues (Genome Biology)
3. Daniela Puiu Sequencing of natural strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with short reads (Genome Research)
4. Dan Sommer, Niranjan Nagarajan Metagenomics: questions to answer (Nature)
5. James Robert White Microbial population dynamics during aerobic sludge granulation at different organic loading rates (ScienceDirect)
6. Mohammad Reza Ghodsi A comparison of random sequence reads versus 16S rDNA sequences for estimating the biodiversity of a metagenomic library (NAR)
7. Sergey Koren R/parallel - speeding up bioinformatics analysis with R (BMC Bioinformatics)
8. Theodore Gibbons High-resolution metagenomics targets specific functional types in complex microbial communities (Nature Biotechnology)
   Molecular eco-systems biology: towards an understanding of community function (Systems Microbiology)

10/06/2008

1. Bo Liu The convergence of carbohydrate active gene repertoires in human gut microbes. PNAS
2. Daniela Puiu SeqMap: mapping massive amount of oligonucleotides to the genome Bioinformatics
3. James Robert White Artificial selection of simulated microbial ecosystems. PNAS
4. MohammadReza Ghodsi Metagenomics: Read Length Matters Applied Environmental Microbiology

10/13/2008

1. Daniela Puiu, Daniel Sommer MetaSim—A Sequencing Simulator for Genomics and Metagenomics PLoS ONE
2. Bo Liu, James Robert White Environmental Genomics Reveals a Single-Species Ecosystem Deep Within Earth. Science
3. MohammadReza Ghodsi Probing Metagenomics by Rapid Cluster Analysis of Very Large Datasets (PLoS one)

MetaSim software:

     Location:         /fs/sz-user-supported/common/packages/MetaSim/ 
     Executable(Java): /fs/sz-user-supported/common/packages/MetaSim/metasim/MetaSim 
     Database:         /fs/sz-user-supported/common/packages/MetaSim/database           
     create a symlink to it from your working directory, otherwise you have to import it 
     NCBI databases: Complete bacteria;   Taxonomy

10/20/2008

1. Bo Liu Accelerated evolution of resistance in multidrug environments PNAS
   Drug interactions modulate the potential for evolution of resistance PNAS
2. Daniel Sommer NCBI Reference Sequences: current status, policy and new initiatives NAR
3. Daniela Puiu A simple, fast, and accurate method of phylogenomic inference Genome Biology
4. Niranjan Nagarajan The Stastical Power of Phylogenetic Motif Models RECOMB 2008

10/27/2008

1. Sergey Koren Aggressive Assembly of Pyrosequencing Reads with Mates Bioinformatics
2. Daniela Puiu ZOOM! Zillions of oligos mapped Bioinformatics