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Metagenomics Explained: From DNA Reads to MAGs

Tonight I continued watching the ISME19 Workshop by KBase: “From Reads to Function, Day 1.” Kelly Wrighton presented on “Metagenomics 101: From Reads to Bins.” Wrighton is at Colorado State. Wrighton co-runs the Microbial Ecosystems Lab. They defined microbiome as “the study of microorganisms, their genomes, and their surrounding chemical and other environmental conditions.” I appreciate how this […]
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GROWdb Project: Sequencing Global River Ecosystems

Tonight I started watching the ISME19 Workshop by KBase: “From Reads to Function, Day 1.” Mikayla Borton was the first speaker of this session. The workshop had twenty-five people in person and ~220 virtual participants… from fifty countries. The KBase Education team was there! Borton’s session was on the Genome Resolved Open Watersheds database (GROWdb) […]
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Highlights from ENIGMA Workshop on Isolate Sequencing

Tonight I watched Lauren Lui from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory present a “Long Read Isolate Sequencing and Assembly Workshop.” This session was recorded April 2, 2024 and was part of the ENIGMA program. Lui provided an overview of the apps they use: Filtlong, Unicycler, Polypolish, and Flye. The team was motivated by evolving long-read technologies […]
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Long-reads Tools in KBase

I ran out of Nanopore videos on their YouTube channel! So I started watching a KBase webinar on long-read tools. Benjamin Allen from KBase introduced the session. This webinar will help me prepare for BIT 295 and isolate sequencing next semester. Allen shared KBase resources including the YouTube channel webinar recordings and the LISA Workshop […]
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