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Recently, I’ve been collaborating with several colleagues on projects focussing on the microbial ecology of hydrocarbon degradation. …
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The data.table package has become my favourite R package for all things data handling. Unlike the “tidyverse” suite of packages, the …
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After my post yesterday, documenting a faster parallelised version of the rarecurve function (quickRareCurve), I realised it’d be good …
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Recently, the newest version of the popular ggplot2 graphics package was announced, and it has some nifty mapping features that I was …
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Let me start off by stating that I have enormous respect for Rob Edgar (creator of USEARCH, UPARSE etc.). His contributions to the …
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When beginning analyses on microbial community data, it is often helpful to compute rarefaction curves. A rarefaction curve tells you …
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If you use R to analyse and plot your data, then you’ve probably heard of and used the ggplot2 package, written by Hadley Wickham. …
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I was recently asked by one of my PhD supervisors to help out on a paper by doing some metagenomic analyses. My mission was essentially …
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I’ve recently started a chapter for my PhD which involves a meta-analysis of microbial ecological literature. This has involved looking …
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As a microbial ecologist, part of my job is to try and assign taxonomy to all of the microbial critters living in the habitats I study. …
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