<p>In this episode, <a href="https://faculty.washington.edu/adwillis/">Amy Willis</a> joins me to talk about good and bad ways to
estimate taxonomic richness in microbial ecology studies.</p>

      

      
      <p>Links:</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/12/11/231878">Rarefaction, alpha diversity, and statistics</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3333">Estimating Diversity via Frequency Ratios</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-022513-115654">Estimating the Number of Species in Microbial Diversity Studies</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.biostat.washington.edu/suminst">Summer Institutes 2018 at the University of Washington</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/stamps/">STAMPS: Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bio2040.com/">bio2040, a new podcast by Flavio Rump</a></li>
</ul>

#18 Bioinformatics Contest 2018 with Alexey Sergushichev and Ekaterina Vyahhi

A podcast about computational biology, bioinformatics, and next generation sequencing.