Jonathan Eisen on Fora.tv
Video of Jonathan Eisen, head of the DOE JGI’s Phylogenomics Group, talking about “The Evolution of Microbes and their Genomes” at the California Academy of Sciences on October 3 now on Fora.tv [Read More]
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JGI’s Jonathan Eisen in iSGTW
In metagenomics, scientists grind up samples containing many different organisms and extract all the DNA they can, not knowing which pieces of DNA came from which organisms. A one-gram soil sample can contain up to several million species of microbes all mixed together. The scientists sequence small, random fragments of the DNA to identify species… [Read More]
JGI’s Jonathan Eisen on the new “worst ‘-omics’ word” award
And the winner of the “worst new omics word award” is [available at Eisen’s blog]…. Amazingly, I missed this when the New York Times used it in a headline… Eisen’s blog on the new word and its meaning has also been picked up by GenomeWeb. [Read More]