(Please contact us at bnsacks@ucdavis.edu if you are interested in access
to any of this data. We're still working out how and when to make it
public.)
The tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes) is a California-endemic
subspecies that underwent a major genetic bottleneck when its numbers
were ...
I just left Woods Hole, MA, where I spent the last 6 and a half weeks
taking the Microbial Diversity course as a student. It was fun,
exhausting, stimulating, and life changing!
The course had three components: a lecture series, in which
world-class microbiologists gave 2-3 hrs of talks each ...
I just gave all of my postdocs a $10,000-a-year raise.
My two current postdocs all got a $10k raise over their current
salary, and the four postdocs coming on board over the next 6 months
will start at $10k over the NIH base salary we pay them already.
(This ...
As I wrote last week my latest
enthusiasm is MinHash sketches, applied (for the moment) to RNAseq
data sets. Briefly, these are small "signatures" of data sets that
can be used to compare data sets quickly. In the previous blog post,
I talked a bit about their effectiveness and showed ...
So, there's this fairly large collection of about 700 RNAseq samples,
from 300 species in 40 or so phyla. It's called the Marine Microbial
Eukaryotic Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP), and was funded
by the Moore Foundation as a truly field-wide collaboration to improve
our reference collection for genes ...