Genome of an uncultured class of Euryarchaeota assembled from a metagenomic sample of Puget Sound seawater
Vaughn Iverson and colleagues published "Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes" in Science recently. Synopses of the study may be found at Nature News, Biotechniques, Genome Web, and the New York Times.
The Bloom and Bust Biochemistry of Diatoms
Adrian Marchetti, David Schruth & co-authors published a comparative metatranscriptome paper in PNAS exploring potential diatom metabolic adaptations to intermittent iron availability.
SeaFlow: A Novel Underway Flow Cytometer
Jarred Swalwell et al. recently published a paper in L&O Methods detailing a new class of oceanographic instrumentation he developed here in the Armbrust lab.
The urea cycle in diatoms
Sara Bender et al. published a study in Protist examining the role of the urea cycle in the model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana
Analysis of Continuous Flowcytometry Data
David Schruth & Francois Ribalet published a paper in Bioinformatics detailing their new Bioconductor package 'flowPhyto'.
Phylogenetic Placement for Non-Overlapping Next-Gen Sequencing Reads
Robin Kodner & Erick Matsen published their pplacer paper in BMC bioinformatics
Pacific NW Marine Ecotone
Francois Ribalet & Adrian Marchetti published a study in PNAS on the discovery of a phytoplankton hotspot at the intersection of open-ocean and coastal waters in the North Pacific Ocean.
