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• Openwetware website
  • Pages:
    • Home: logo and brief project summary
    • Project: detailed project summary, links to subprojects
    • People: photo of each person
    • Pubs/talks/media
    • News: activities, e.g. conferences, talks
    • Calendar
    • Links: Eisengroup wiki, citeulike, others
    • Private (?) - JE is checking into this
  • Steve Green will bill UCD for his time

• Personnel recap
  • Steve will start Nov. 1
  • Josh will start Oct. 22
  • Sam will start some time this Fall
  • Katie will check in with Tom Sharpton in a few weeks
  • James is transitioning to full time on iSEEM

• Subcontract to Gladstone/UCSF is on its way

• Review article: possible topics
  • targeted vs. not
  • sampling issues
  • phylogenetic similarity metrics (JG paper)

• JG lab and new hires need tutorial in sequence processing and alignment
  • Idea: wiki page documenting the process, to be done by Srijak
  • Examples: targeted and non-targeted sequences
  • Only need a few for the demo (JG will send data)

• Education
  • KP met Yuzhen Ye (Indiana U) who taught a metagenomics seminar course
    • http://mendel.informatics.indiana.edu/~yye/lab/teaching/spring2008-seminar.php
    • nice slides
    • bibliography
  • Idea: develop slides and other educational materials that we can all use
  • Teach a metagenomics course at Bodega Bay next year?
  • JE will teach metagenomics at UC Davis