Moore Notes 4 13 15

Group Call

• Participants: Katie, Tom, Josh, Patrick, Ladan, Dongying, Stephen, Stacia, Guillaume

• GBMF logistics
  • No-cost extension
  • Progress report coming up

• Shotmap manuscript reviews from PLoS
  • Novelty versus other methods
    • Especially Reviewer 1
  • Simulations
    • More scenarios
  • Data analyses
    • Additional data sets? Maybe other IBD samples
    • New, more novel analyses
    • Use RPKG? (counts versus bp that align)
  • Software development
    • How easy is it to use?
    • Patrick and collaborator: problem getting rapsearch2 running on Mac OSX (used Stephen's compiled binaries)
      • Virtual machine (ubuntu) might be a solution
    • Other cluster queuing (e.g., PSB)

• Tara Oceans
  • functional profiles running
  • average genome size niche modeling
    • Samples show only a little spatial autocorrelation
    • Ran all subsets model selection (Results)
      • Cross validation predictive power is low
      • Most predictive variables are Dust
    • Stephen: condition on size fraction
      • Small size filter has most of the AGS outliers

• Next Calls
  • Stacia: April 27th, 1pm
  • Tom: May 11th