Category Archives: Microbiome

A Benefit of the Human Microbiome Project: Putting the “99% of Bacteria Are Unculturable” Canard to Rest

Posted on September 3, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the interesting developments from the Human Microbiome Project is that we’re discovering that we really can culture many human-associated bacteria.
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Posted in Microbiology, Microbiome | 17 Comments

Programming Note: Microbiome Meeting

Posted on August 30, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ll be at the Human Microbiome Research Conference for a few days.
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Some Thoughts About the Statistics of the Human Microbiome

Posted on August 10, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Big critter ecologists have thought about this kind of data for decades, and we should learn from them.
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Posted in Ecology, Microbiome, Statistics | 8 Comments

‘Counterintuition’, the Human Microbiome, and Why Fluency in Math Matters

Posted on July 21, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Probability theory shouldn’t be counterintuitive.
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Posted in Mathematics, Microbiome | 7 Comments

The Human Genome Project: What Happens When You Do Budget-Limited Science (or You Get What You Pay For)

Posted on June 16, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

The Human Genome Project: you get what you pay for.
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Posted in Big Shitpile, Economics, Genomics, Microbiome | 2 Comments

Re the VA AG’s War on Science: Should Grant Reviewers Consider This?

Posted on May 3, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Should the potential for political interference be included when considering the research environment?
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Funding, Global Warming, Microbiome, The War on Science | 12 Comments

GEBA GEBA Hey!

Posted on January 19, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

An efficient way to discover new gene families.
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Posted in Genomics, Microbiology, Microbiome, Music | 1 Comment

Review: “The Effects of Circumsion on the Penis Microbiome”

Posted on January 11, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

It turns your bacteria Jewish. Seriously, the strong finding of this article was completely ignored. Anyway….
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Posted in HIV, Microbiology, Microbiome | 16 Comments

The Future of Sequencing at NHGRI Report: The Human Microbiome

Posted on June 7, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Some good suggestions for NHGRI’s role in microbiome research.
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Posted in Bioinformatics, Funding, Genomics, Meetings, Microbiome, NIH | 2 Comments

The Human Microbiome, 16S, Pyrosequencing, and Phylogenetics?

Posted on October 7, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

I’m not certain you can have all four. Let’s start at the beginning.

Posted in Microbiome | 3 Comments