Metagenomics Journal Club

(Last Update: Wed Jun 30 10:35:18 PDT 2010 )

This web page is for the Metagenomics Journal Club. Current, past and future journal articles can be found here.

Location: UC Santa Cruz, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, C332
Time: TBA
Date: TBA
To Recommend A Paper, send the citation and link to Jeff: jlong@soe.ucsc.edu

Spring 2010 Papers

DateRecommender Paper
23 Apr 2010 Jonathan Magasin Use of simulated data sets to evaluate the fidelity of metagenomic processing methods,
Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, Kerrie Barry, Harris Shapiro, Eugene Goltsman, Alice C McHardy, Isidore Rigoutsos, Asaf Salamov, Frank Korzeniewski, Miriam Land, Alla Lapidus, Igor Grigoriev, Paul Richardson, Philip Hugenholtz and Nikos C Kyrpides,
Nature Methods 4, 495-500 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1043
30 Apr 2010 Jeffrey Long ShotgunFunctionalizeR: an R-package for functional comparison of metgenomes
Bioinformatics Vol. 25, no.20, 2009
Application Note:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/20/2737
Supplementary Data 1 - Methods
Supplementary Data 2 - User Manual
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/btp508/DC1
Package Availability
http://shotgun.zool.gu.se
14 May 2010 Thomas Juettemann Metagenomic Sequencing of an In Vitro-Simulated Microbial Community,
Morgan JL, Darling AE, Eisen JA,
PLoS ONE 5(4): e10209, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010209
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010209
21 May 2010 Jeffrey Long
The metagenomics RAST server -- a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes
Meyer, F. and Paarmann, D. and D'Souza, M. and Olson, R. and Glass, EM and Kubal, M. and Paczian, T. and Rodriguez, A. and Stevens, R. and Wilke, A. and others
BMC bioinformatics 2008 vol. 9, no. 1, pp 386,
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/386/
4 Jun 2010 Jonathan Magasin
and
Jeffrey Long
MEGAN analysis of metagenomic data,
Huson, D.H. and Auch, A.F. and Qi, J. and Schuster, S.C.
Genome Research 2007 vol. 17, no. 3, pp 377
http://serine.umiacs.umd.edu/teaching/computational_biology/syllabus/files/huson_et_al_2007.pdf
AND
Visual and statistical comparison of metagenomes

Mitra, S. and Klar, B. and Huson, D.H.
Bioinformatics 2009, vol. 25, no. 15, pp 1849
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/15/1849

Winter 2010 Papers

Date Recommender Paper
12 Feb 2010 Jeff Long Identifying biologically relevant differences between metagenomic communities,
Donovan Parks and Robert Beiko,
Bioinformatics published 3 February 2010,
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btq041v1?etoc
5 Mar 2010 Pia Moisander A supervised learning approach for taxonomic classification of core-photosystem-II genes and transcripts in the marine environment,
Shani Tzahor, Dikla Man-Aharonovich, Benjamin Kirkup, Tali Yogev, Ilana Berman-Frank, Martin Polz, Oded Béjà and Yael Mandel-Gutfreund
BMC Genomics published 16 May 2009,
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/229
9 Apr 2010 Jim Tripp Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics,
Gianoulis, T.A. and Raes, J. and Patel, P.V. and Bjornson, R. and Korbel, J.O. and Letunic, I. and Yamada, T. and Paccanaro, A. and Jensen, L.J. and Snyder, M. and others
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published 3 February 2009,
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/5/1374.abstract

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