I continued watching the KBase Educators Orientation from December 2024. Ellen Dow from KBase provided an overview of the narratives in the KBase Educators Org. Dow shared how students, for example, can import data from other narratives. This is a feature I did not know about! RAST and Prokka are two annotation tools available. Dow […]
Tonight I started watching the KBase Educators Orientation meeting from December 2024. Ellen Dow facilitated the session and shared resources from the KBase Educators group and handbook. Dow explained the structure of KBase narratives and how to join the KBase Educators group. The Educators Org has several narratives that can be copied. There are a […]
Tonight I started watching day 2 of the ISME19 workshop “From Reads to Function.” Mikayla Borton from Colorado State University presented on “DRAM and genome-resolved inference.” Borton started with dereplication of bins/MAGs. After that step, MAGs are annotated with DRAM. The tool used to dereplicate metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) is dRep. Borton explained that the […]
Rebecca D. Prescott from the University of Edinburgh in the UK presented at London Calling 2019. The title of the session was ‘O na Hoku no na Kiu o ka Lani: Bridging genomics research and culture-based science education through astrobiology in Hawai’i.” Prescott started by mentioning that they represent a large team supported by numerous […]
Ariel Pradipta from the Genomik Solidaritas Indonesia Lab (GSI Lab) spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “The First 100 days of establishing nanopore-based sequencing for national SARS-CoV-2 surveillance.” Pradipta is a senior researcher fellow assisting in the national genomic efforts. They recognized a gap in rapid sequencing. To address this, they worked on […]