- The recording and use of additional meta-information might be a key-factor for a better understanding of the sequence data. Fortunately more of this data is collected now.
- For me the gut metagenome analyzes are pretty promising projects. Masahira Hattori and Janet Jansson presented very interesting studies.
- A lot of tools that are developed for "classical" genomics cannot simply be applied in metagenomics. This has also to be explained to funding sources.
- Platforms like Camera, img/m and Megx are under heavy development at the moment to fulfill the needs of the community.
2007-07-16
Metagenomics 2007 conference report - part 2
EN: As Jonathan has written already a nice overview of the Metagenomics 2007 conference (while I was spending my time exploring San Diego ... call me a slacker) and as the videos will be online soon, I will only post my take-home-messages:
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If you had invited me to explore San Diego, maybe I too could have been a slacker ;-)
As for other things to comment on --- I think people still underestimate the complexity of analyzing metagenomic data and personally found some of the talks to be disappointing in this area. A community is more than a bag of genes and we need to stop treating them as such and start to figure out how to better bin by organisms and/or normalize between communities.
Well, good that at least somebody did the reporter job properly. ;)
Yes, binning is really an essential, low level step that has to be solved properly before the real biology starts. I liked your proposal on the conference to set up a competition to push the development of necessary software. More reference genomes could be the other/parallel way to go. Single-cell sequencing might help here.
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