The next meeting of the Bioinformatics Users Group will be at noon, Wednesday, April 5 in ALS 3006.
Zachary Foster will demonstrate MetacodeR, an R package he has written for metabarcoding research , planning, and analysis.
Metabarcoding is revolutionizing microbial ecology and presenting new challenges:
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Numerous database formats make taxonomic data difficult to parse, combine, and subset.
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Stacked bar charts, commonly used to depict community diversity, lack taxonomic context.
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Barcode loci and primers are a source of under-explored bias.
MetacodeR is an R package that attempts to addresses these issues:
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Sources of taxonomic data can be extracted from any file format and manipulated.
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Community diversity can be visualized by color and size in a tree plot.
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Primer specificity can be estimated with in silico PCR.
I hope to see you all there.
-Kevin Weitemier
The Bioinformatics Users Group consists of scientists in the life sciences, computing, math, statistics, and other areas who meet to discuss topics related to those fields. Meetings are generally informal, consisting of discussions, interactive talks, or short workshops. No experience needed to participate. For topics suggestions or requests, contact kevin.weitemier@cgrb.oregonstate.edu.
The next meeting of the Bioinformatics Users Group will be at noon, Wednesday, April 5 in ALS 3006.
Zachary Foster will demonstrate MetacodeR, an R package he has written for metabarcoding research , planning, and analysis.
Metabarcoding is revolutionizing microbial ecology and presenting new challenges:
MetacodeR is an R package that attempts to addresses these issues:
I hope to see you all there.
-Kevin Weitemier
The Bioinformatics Users Group consists of scientists in the life sciences, computing, math, statistics, and other areas who meet to discuss topics related to those fields. Meetings are generally informal, consisting of discussions, interactive talks, or short workshops. No experience needed to participate. For topics suggestions or requests, contact kevin.weitemier@cgrb.oregonstate.edu.