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Group Call
- Participants:Katie, Patrick, Josh, Stacia, Sarah, Dongying
- Sarah: Comparing functional and taxonomic diversity (slides)
- Lower or higher than expected gene family diversity given the taxonomic composition
- Multiple samples with different environments to set expectations
- Look into exactly what KR distance measures
- How is "work" quantified?
- How does it account for differences in tree topology and size across markers?
- Doing all pair-wise comparisons and many gene families generates a big multiple testing problem
- Compare taxonomic markers to other gene families
- Taxonomic markers are more similar in the same environment
- Searched for Sfams with higher or lower KRs than all taxonomic markers (in a given environment)
- Josh: Why not plot taxonomic diversity vs. functional diversity and fit a regression?
- Is this alpha vs. beta diversity?
- Challenge of identifying the function of the families with interesting patterns
