Video of Jonathan Eisen, head of the DOE JGI’s Phylogenomics Group, talking about “The Evolution of Microbes and their Genomes” at the California Academy of Sciences on October 3 now on Fora.tv [Read More]
In metagenomics, scientists grind up samples containing many different organisms and extract all the DNA they can, not knowing which pieces of DNA came from which organisms. A one-gram soil sample can contain up to several million species of microbes all mixed together. The scientists sequence small, random fragments of the DNA to identify species… [Read More]
And the winner of the “worst new omics word award” is [available at Eisen’s blog]…. Amazingly, I missed this when the New York Times used it in a headline… Eisen’s blog on the new word and its meaning has also been picked up by GenomeWeb. [Read More]