tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post5921648686756428444..comments2023-07-04T17:24:33.602+02:00Comments on konrad's considerations: Metagenomics 2007 conference report - part 2Konrad Förstnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-12250699880121101212007-07-23T18:15:00.000+02:002007-07-23T18:15:00.000+02:00Well, good that at least somebody did the reporter...Well, good that at least somebody did the reporter job properly. ;)<BR/><BR/>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.Konrad Förstnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03934644279917687337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17237769.post-20882065674211596952007-07-23T17:46:00.000+02:002007-07-23T17:46:00.000+02:00If you had invited me to explore San Diego, maybe ...If you had invited me to explore San Diego, maybe I too could have been a slacker ;-)<BR/><BR/>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.Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.com