Gianna Marschmann from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented at the KBase Microbial Community Modeling workshop. The title of the session was: DEBmicroTrait: Trait-based Microbial Community Modeling in KBase Overview.” Marschmann is a postdoc with Ulas Karaoz. Genome-informed trait-based modeling takes multidimensional data. Marschmann noted that they can reduce dimensionality and model traits. The parameter distributions […]
I started another KBase session because I want to continue learning and be prepared for courses. This semester I want to share genomes and narratives. Tonight, I started watching the KBase Science Session: Data integration to support (or refute) predictions. Elisha Wood-Charlson from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was the first speaker and presented a […]
Tonight I watched the viral genomics webinar from KBase from July 31, 2024. Ben Allen facilitated this session. Allen shared that the tools were developed by the iVirus group. The tutorial is in the public narratives: Viral Genomics in KBase. The narrative uses data from the Global Ocean Virome project and uses KBase tools to […]
I’m finishing day 2 of the ISME19 Workshop: From Reads to Function. In the session I watched tonight, Mikayla Borton explained components of the DRAM Narrative. The KBase Org for GROW (Genome Resolved Open Watersheds database) was shared with in-person and online participants. Ben pulled in all the MAGs from all samples into one narrative: […]
I continue watching the ISME19 KBase workshop: “From Reads to Function, Day 2.” Jared Ellenbogen presented next. They spoke about “DRAM and genome-resolved inference.” Ellenbogen spoke about analyzing the fifteen genomes studied during the workshop with DRAM. The outputs of DRAM were described: a heat map with every row corresponding to a different genome or […]
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 […]
Tonight I continued watching the recording for the ISME19 workshop “From Reads to Function” corresponding to the last part of Day 1. Ben Allen from KBase described completeness and contamination of bins/MAGs. The next step in the workflow is taxonomic assessment and classification. First, one option is to classify taxonomy of metagenomic reads with Kaiju. […]
I continued watching the ISME19 Workshop “From Reads to Function” day 1 sessions. Next, Ben Allen from KBase spoke about “Metagenomics in KBase.” Allen went over metagenomics workflows in KBase. They explained that the workflow is based on the Chivian et al. (2023) Nature Protocols publication. Allen shared a graph with the NCBI Sequencing Read […]
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 […]
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 […]