This week Ana and Rachel attended a workshop on metagenomics hosted by Liz Dinsdale at San Diego State University.
From DNA extraction all the way through sequencing and analysis, we were able to produce metagenomes from shotgun sequencing from some of our samples and hope that they will add some interesting comparisons to our 16S data set.
We also learned how to use a lot of really cool analysis tools to visualize these complex data sets, so when our next sequencing run is completed we’ll be able to explore our data in multiple ways and Rachel will be able to create some really eye-catching figures and charts.
