Tag Archives: microbiome
Guest Posting: Help Crowdfund the Transbiome
Scott Edmunds - March 2, 2021
A guest posting with the Transbiome team on their community driven research program using crowdfunding and co-creation to discover the diversity of the neo-vaginal microbiome.
Of Mice and Men (and Monkey) Microbiomes.
Scott Edmunds - August 31, 2018
Monkey Microbiome Business Research just out in GigaScience introduces the macaque monkey to the microbial gene catalogue club, joining other important model organisms including the (also recently published in GigaScience) Rat, Mouse, Pig and Cow. To explain more, in this posting we give some insight into what this data shows, and how this growing library […]
Community Microbiomes: Chatting Cat Scat with Kittybiome’s Holly Ganz
Scott Edmunds - May 26, 2015
All Cats (Microbiomes) are Grey? Regular readers will have seen our interest in “community genome” projects, supported by crowdfunding and alternative means (fashion shows in case of the “peoples parrot”), and we’ve been pleased to see the Azolla fern and Cactus genome projects that we published guest GigaBlog postings from both achieve their funding targets. […]
New GigaDB Dataset: Ever wondered whats in your gut?
Scott Edmunds - July 7, 2014
A paper published in Nature Biotechnology today reveals the most comprehensive catalogue of genes in any single microbiome to date. While the roughly 20,000 genes in the human genome have been available for over a decade, the gene catalogue of the microbiome, our much larger “other genome” has to date been much more poorly understood […]
Guest posting: Let’s crowdfund a fern genome that will blow your mind
Nicole Nogoy - June 16, 2014
Following our efforts encouraging open-science projects, such as the community funded “Peoples Parrot” and OpenAshDieback, today we have a guest posting from Fay-Wei Li and Kathleen Pryer from the Department of Biology at Duke University covering a crowdfunding effort to sequence the Azolla genome. They have already raised over $4,000 and have 25 days remaining until […]
Moving pictures of the Microbiome in GigaScience
Scott Edmunds - November 27, 2013
Visualizations are becoming increasing important to graphically illustrate, understand, and glean insight from the explosion of larger and larger datasets in this supposed era of “big data”. Microbial ecology and the study of the microbiome is revolutionizing how we look at health, microorganism diversity and ecological interactions, but these studies are proving challenging to deal […]