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Tag: DNA

Ecology Fish Microbes Organisms

So you think you know Marine Metagenomics?

Holly Bik March 9, 2013 cyanobacteriaDNAGeneGlobal Ocean SurveyironMetabolismmetagenomicsparrotfishsubmarine

Metagenomics is so easy to understand, right? Scientists just go out and get DNA sequences from…stuff…in the environment. And then they answer lots of questions,…

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Top 5 scariest species…from, er, DNA?

Holly Bik October 24, 2012 bioinformaticsdeep seaDNAgenomicsMicrobesNew Species

My fellow Deeplings have been barraging the blog with “Best of” and “Top 10” lists in recent memory. Now its my turn to chime in.…

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Microbes Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

In the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waiting

Holly Bik April 26, 2012 16SBacteriaDNAMicrobesrRNAsulfurThiomargarita namibiensis

The real title of the paper is “Multiple self-splicing introns in the 16S rRNA genes of giant sulfur bacteria”. But who’s going to fall out of…

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Expeditions

Challenger Deep: What we can learn from a single, half core of mud

Holly Bik March 28, 2012 Challenger DeepDeepsea ChallengeDNAJames CameronMariana TrenchmetagenomicsMicrobesPacific Ocean

James Cameron’s descent to the Challenger Deep – we have adventure, intrigue, and a great story for the media. But we also have an amazing…

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New Research

Hot dayum, Craig Venter

Holly Bik September 19, 2011 BacteriaDNAgenomicsmarinesequencing

There’s a new paper today describing the use of very short sequences (100 base pairs long) and sophisticated computational algorithms to map out an entire…

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Evolution Fish New Research

Assembling the Little Skate Genome

Holly Bik May 28, 2011 DNAgenomeLittle Skatemodel organism

This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical…

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Microbes New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea

Holly Bik May 14, 2011 16SarchaeaBacteriaDNAhigh-throughput sequencinghydrotermal ventLost CityMicrobesrRNA

I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business.  (Seriously, people,…

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Ecology Microbes New Species Organisms

Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans

Holly Bik April 26, 2011 454DNAIlluminametagenomicsMicrobesRB Editor's Selectionsequencing

If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing.  Frankly, I’m a…

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Ecology Organisms Scientist!

A 21st century view of Marine Biology

Holly Bik March 20, 2011 careercomputational biologycyberinfrastructureDNAmarine biologyOrganismssequencing

So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…

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New Research Plankton Uncategorized

Release of the Daphnia Genome

Holly Bik February 4, 2011 DaphniaDNAfreshwatergene expressiongenome

Today marks the long-awaited release of the Daphnia pulex genome, published today in Science.  Why is this such a momentous occasion?  Well first of all,…

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