Hi Folks,
Pat Marsteller just made me aware of this group and I’m very interested in exploring opportunities to use case to leverage quantitative reasoning.

Also, this is a timely and nice blog post on metagenomics from the data analysis side:

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2014/09/of-terms-in-biology-metagenomic-binning.html

I hope to use this blog post as a starting point for discussions in a metagenomics course and from here branch off and read the other linked articles to learn about…[Read more]

Here’s a neat tool for visualizing biological (“big”) sequence data:
http://phinch.org/