Michael Tessler

andChristopher Masonjoin me to talk about their comparison of16S amplicon sequencing andshotgun sequencing for quantifying microbial diversity.

Links:

• The 2017 Nature paper that we discuss: Large-scale differences in microbial biodiversity discovery between 16S amplicon and shotgun sequencing
• Michael’s et al. 2016 paper that describes their original 16S study: A Global eDNA Comparison of Freshwater Bacterioplankton Assemblages Focusing on Large-River Floodplain Lakes of Brazil
• The sequencing data for these studies is available from NCBI:

  PRJNA310230
  (16S),
  PRJNA389803
  (shotgun)
• Michael’s website
• Christopher’s lab website
• The Integrative Biology & Medicine
  conference, featuring the talk on Postmodern Synthesis by Eugene Koonin